Re: Time to let sun4m + sun4d RIP?

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:46:11PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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!

And then I read this on LWN:
Debian drops the SPARC architecture - http://lwn.net/Articles/596663/

Which point to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugt5938

	Sam