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

[Hans Witvliet]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:08 -0500, 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
> 
Good Lord!
I didn't realize that there was still no maintainer for 32 ;-((
Some years ago, i had a discussion about it with Joshua Uziel.

If i recall correctly, trouble started when a new GCC-compiler was
broken for sparc32, and took over a year before a it worked again.

Is it still possible to revive linux for those old machines, or are they
doomed to run BSD?
I have some 4M machine here around, (lx, ss4, ss20) that were running
linux happily in the good old days. But they can not cope with resource
hungry stuff (small footprint), that requires gigs of mem ;-(((


Hans.

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