[Aurora-sparc-user] Sparc 20 and ESP module status.

[Chris Andrew]

My understanding is that Lenny (Testing) will officially not support
Sparc (32).  The generally feeling seems to be that 32 bit support was
unofficially dropped some time, ago.  By this I mean that support/
maintenance has been lacking, at best.

People on the Debian Sparc list wanted sparc (32), not sparc64 to be
split as a separate port.  This would give 32-bit supporters a flag to
rally around, so that we could get our lives sorted.

The problem seems to be that many people want the port to live, but
not many people have the skills to keep it alive :-(.

The above is my personal understanding, not any sort of official line.

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Chris.

On 07/10/2007, Hans Witvliet <hwit at a-domani.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 09:34 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> > Re: *BSD, NetBSD supports 32 bit, and I think Open does, too.  Much
> > prefer to use GNU/Linux though.  Debian dropping support for sparc32
> > with Lenny.
> >
>
> So the deed is done?
> Thought that it was still undecided...
> (i dropped of the debian lists)
>
> Was it because there's still no 32-bit maintainer for the kernel?
>
> hw
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