Re: Sparc port still maintained in 2.5

John Bradford
2002-12-30T18:20:08Z

> > > I have a spare Alpha box (in theory I made need it some day if we ever
> > > decide to support Tru64 but that seems like a small market). I don't
> > > know how useful it is but I could put it up outside our firewall if
> > > that helped. I'd have to install Linux on it and I'm booked up until
> > > Jan 9th but if you still need it then let me know.
> >
> > Hi Larry, nice offer. But I personally would not have time hacking on
> > Alpha. Others may find it usefull though.
> >
>
> Well, I have an Alpha System here myself and am also "hacking" on
> it. But one has also to ask oneself if there is any demand (apart
> from my personal demand) for a maintained Linux/Alpha >= 2.5...

I'm certainly going to be interested in Linux/Sparc >= 2.5 when I can
get a Sparc machine, (I'm hoping to help work on the 'Splack'
distribution, which is basically an un-official Slackware-like
distribution for Sparcs), with the eventual aim of moving from X86 to
Sparc as my default architechture, but I'm not really interested in
Alpha.

What's the status of the 2.5 Sparc tree?

John.