From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:27:38 +0000 Subject: Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ? Message-Id: <20070914162738.GA22240@synopsys.com> List-Id: References: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> In-Reply-To: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > > I have a full rack of Niagara systems that proves that Sun > > cares to some extent. I get early hardware access and > > documentation access, plus engineers to talk to and ask > > questions of. On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 06:43:35AM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: > With all due respect to your incredible efforts, this amounts to crumbs > from their table. It doesn't serve us to bash contributors for not doing more. As some have pointed out, it can backfire; I wouldn't be surprised if Sun's own compiler group sees gcc as competition and would like for Sun to support it *less*. Like most tech companies that have seen better days, Sun's been cutting costs to the bone; I'm sure that they don't feel rich. So please stop.