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

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday 16 March 2007 04:08:07 pm 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

Im personally all for turning off sparc32 support.  I think this cycle is too 
far gone to change things other than have no sparc32 kernel.  But I feel we 
should look at the flags we compile with in the next release. i.e 
change -mcpu=v7 to -mcpu=v8 on the 32 bit binaries.

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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE