Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.sparc,gmane.os.freebsd.architechture |
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On 2015-11-05 18:34, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 5 November 2015 at 15:24, Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 02:13:29PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> We don't have to expect clang support to work. Just having someone >>> champion the external toolchain stuff and getting sparc64 >>> world/kernel/release building from say, sparc64-gcc 5.x would be >>> enough. >>> >> sparc64 has been the first arch that have been tested with external >> toolchain: >> build and run just fine. >> >> The problem with the external toolchain is that if you are not able to >> cross >> build the ports until you get a working toolchain available via >> packages, you >> are doomed. >> >> And we do not have that > > Right. You don't end up with a toolchain built if you use an external > toolchain to build. I discovered this amusement when I first got this > up for MIPS. :) > > > > -adrian > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[email protected]" So is the problem in question the lack of being able to use clang/llvm? Or that newer hardware is unsupported? sparc64 supports sun4u which is most boxes, Fujitsu Sparc64 boxes also work quite well. The only thing really missing is sun4v and a few drivers here and there. OpenBSD has support for almost all of the newer Sun/Oracle boxes, which shouldn't bee too hard to port over. http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html Because of the lack of sun4v support i have moved over to a custom illumos distro, but one of the things im working on there is to replace gcc with clang/llvm. If it means saving the sparc64 port i will gladly move some of my work over to freebsd. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"