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Debian May Drop the SPARC Architecture

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 30 2014, @03:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the problems-with-hardware-software-and-people dept.

omoc writes:

Reported by LWN:

As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain and continued stability issues with our machines.

The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this should take place on #745938.

(Cross submitted on pipedot.org)

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:25PM (#38496)

    Luckily there's still OpenBSD and Gentoo left for old Sparc hardware.

    Let the NetBSD guys handle this one. They have proven processes in place for handling old hardware. Debian is not focused on this area. Most of what you'd want to do with old hardware does not require linux.

    http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sparc/hardware.html [netbsd.org]