From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:46:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Time to let sun4m + sun4d RIP? Message-Id: <20140429184611.GA31545@ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <20140419114802.GA13716@ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20140419114802.GA13716@ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:48:02PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi all sparc lovers/users. > > We all know that is is a long time ago that a sun4m or sun4d machine was produced, > and I wonder if there are anyone using these today. > The questions pops up as there are still stuff to do before the sparc32 port > is in good shape. > > So the question to you guys... > Shall we keep support for sun4d and sun4m? > If yes then why? > > LEON is in active use in several applications - so the sparc32 port is > as relevant as ever. Just a fololow-up to my original question. We still have a few brave souls running the kernels on sparc32 based boxes. On top of this there are templig.org that looks like a one-man show to implment sparc32 in VHDL. But very impressive! Then there are qemu that today supports sun4m - if we drop sun4m we also drop qemu support for sparc. So in total there are still reasons to keep sun4m and sun4d around. Thanks everyone for your responses! Sam