[Aurora-sparc-user] [Fwd: Re: sparc32 esp connected CDROM failures]

Mike Tremaine mgt at stellarcore.net
Fri Mar 16 17:12:22 EDT 2007


Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> Well folks, Dave lays out the law:
> 
> Do we want to keep supporting sparc32 systems? There is no current
> upstream kernel maintainer for sparc32 (sparc64 is maintained by Dave
> Miller).
> 
> Right now, all the other SPARC Linux distributions (except Debian and
> Aurora) have dropped sparc32 support. Debian has dropped support for old
> sparc32, only sun4m are supported now.
> 
> Rather than just doing it, I'd like to hear people's thoughts.
> 
> ~spot
> 
>

As much as I love my Sparc 20 I see no reason not to follow Dave's 
suggestion.  That's my 2c.

-Mike


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