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

Mon Mar 19 06:08:05 EDT 2007

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:08:07PM -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.

Fine by me, we don't use sparc32 boxes anymore and even the 64bit ones
are scarce.

Regards,
R.

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