Re: [PATCH] some easter eggs for netbsd and sparc

Klaus Ziegler via Sbcl-devel <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Apr 2026 19:09:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Andreas,

is there a chance to do some co-work gettig a SPARC 64-bit port to work
on OpenIndiana for SPARC - an illumos based SPARC os?
I have a prototype ready - at least to some extend.

Many Regards
Klaus

On 4/6/26 17:56, Andreas Franke via Sbcl-devel wrote:
> So, in order to clear the leftover NaN fix for sparc from my plate, I went to find some way to test it, which turned into a fabulous egg hunt:
> - NetBSD seems the most practical solution to run on a full QEMU VM with sparc, but while the download matrix lists it as supported/green, there is no binary. Is it supposed to to work?
> - Cross-compiling, self-compiling and testing eventually succeeded, but a few crash fixes were found to be necessary on the way.
> - The attached series is the result of heavy shaking and attempts of verification. Maybe they can serve as inspiration for some proper solutions to the problems they address?
> (All are joint work with Claude Opus 4.6)
> Enjoy.
>
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