<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">well....One of the things that attracted
me to aurora was the support for the 32 bit machines. I now have 32 and
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<br><tt><font size=2>Well folks, Dave lays out the law:<br>
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Do we want to keep supporting sparc32 systems? There is no current<br>
upstream kernel maintainer for sparc32 (sparc64 is maintained by Dave<br>
Miller).<br>
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Right now, all the other SPARC Linux distributions (except Debian and<br>
Aurora) have dropped sparc32 support. Debian has dropped support for old<br>
sparc32, only sun4m are supported now.<br>
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Rather than just doing it, I'd like to hear people's thoughts.<br>
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net><br>
To: tcallawa@redhat.com<br>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org<br>
Subject: Re: sparc32 esp connected CDROM failures<br>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:52:13 -0700 (PDT)<br>
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From: "Tom 'spot' Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com><br>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:47:00 -0500<br>
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> The ioctl error repeats once more in the sequence...but the CDROM
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> to work ok, as compared to sparc32, where it refuses to work.<br>
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Unfortunately that puts the ball in your or someone else's court,<br>
since I don't have any sparc32 systems and therefore any way to work<br>
on sparc32 bugs.<br>
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Sorry.<br>
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Really, you should drop sparc32 support in Aurora if you want my<br>
opinion. Then you can build glibc sparcv9 by default and make other<br>
significant improvements to the userspace. I probably won't ever
use<br>
Aurora until you make this switch, the performance just from being<br>
able to -mcpu=v8 -mtune=ultrasparc all of userspace is very noticable.<br>
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Making a distribution for a kernel platform that has no active<br>
maintainer is beyond foolish, you'll always have bugs that nobody<br>
is going to fix other than yourself and that doesn't scale and<br>
will continually hold up the release.<br>
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