Re: Sparc64 and FreeBSD 13.0

Joe Kozak <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Dec 2019 22:00:35 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.sparc
Message-ID <CAK3Ucu5jNm_HysV3rweR5f8PE1=DojFMvw9p4_WcZVP4dhM0hg@mail.gmail.com>
Is that for basic support in the compiler linker bits?

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:58 PM Mark Linimon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:34:46PM -0600, Joe Kozak wrote:
> > I put my vote of support in for someone doing some updating if
> > possible.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work like that in volunteer projects.
>
> I estimate it would take 1-3 months to fix the toolchain -- which
> would only save us the existing systems (manufactured up to 2005).
> When I last looked at sun4v (the newer systems) I estimated 3-5
> months.
>
> That's full-time activity from someone who *used* to do systems
> work, but has not for many years, and would have to come up to
> speed on 18 zillion things.
>
> mcl
>
> (fwiw I am a software engineer, ergo, my estimates suck.)
>
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