Re: [Fwd: Re: sparc32 esp connected CDROM failures]
Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]>
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On Friday 16 March 2007 04:08:07 pm Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > Well folks, Dave lays out the law: > > Do we want to keep supporting sparc32 systems? There is no current > upstream kernel maintainer for sparc32 (sparc64 is maintained by Dave > Miller). > > Right now, all the other SPARC Linux distributions (except Debian and > Aurora) have dropped sparc32 support. Debian has dropped support for old > sparc32, only sun4m are supported now. > > Rather than just doing it, I'd like to hear people's thoughts. > > ~spot Im personally all for turning off sparc32 support. I think this cycle is too far gone to change things other than have no sparc32 kernel. But I feel we should look at the flags we compile with in the next release. i.e change -mcpu=v7 to -mcpu=v8 on the 32 bit binaries. -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html