Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]>
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Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 19:44 +1100: > On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote: > >Again, what???s the long-term goal of supporting this architecture? > > The things that sparc64 give us that x86 doesn't are big-endian and > strict alignment. In theory, MIPS, PPC and ARM can give us both of > those but I'm non sure whether we actually have any big-endian > variants of them. I'm running an ARMv4 BE machine (AVILA board), and a MIPS64 BE machine, the EdgeRouter Lite... FreeBSD avila.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r283010M: Sun May 17 10:16:08 PDT 2015 [email protected]:/a/obj/arm.armeb/a/home/jmg/FreeBSD.svn/HEAD/sys/AVILA arm FreeBSD erl.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r289393M: Thu Oct 15 17:02:12 PDT 2015 [email protected]:/a/obj/mips.mips64/a/home/jmg/FreeBSD.svn/HEAD/sys/ERL mips -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"