Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64

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> Just as a further note, I had experimented in January of this year
> with making a binary pkg mirror for sun4u using my (comparatively
> sad) Ultra 60 and a cross-build system.  Installation was fairly
> straightforward but I was having issues bringing up Clang and was
> having many issues trying to build "modern" packages using GCC
> 4.2.1.
> 
> See my blog for some insight:
> http://blog.foxkit.us/search/label/sparc
> 
> Unfortunately, truth be told, I gave up after the Freenode IRC
> channel gave me a whole heap of abuse and name-calling for trying
> to ask for any support with the sparc64 port.  I couldn't find the
> documentation I needed to keep going and nobody wanted to help.  If
> there are others working on this and I am not alone after all, I
> will gladly pull the Ultra 60 back on to my desk and do what I can
> to help out.  GCC 4.8 or 4.9 would be a huge, huge, huge
> improvement in particular.
> 
> --arw
> 
> 
> 

Efnet is where a lot of freebsd folks hang out that actually want to
*fix* things.  If you are looking for us, #bsdmips, #bsdports are
where I (sbruno) can be found.

sean
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