Re: FreeBSD sparc64

Bill Sorenson <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:27:47 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.sparc
Message-ID <CACcTwYk8FXhWPqt8euxkdhi3y=w+VL_fcbqc39zDf9GmUZmnBA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Linimon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Correct.  portmgr has not built packages for sparc64 in many years.
>
> Up until about a year ago I was building them myself, but other work
> called me away from that task.
>
> Unfortunately sparc64 has now (officially) fallen below the threshhold
> where FreeBSD can support it.  As of a week or two ago support was
> removed from the -CURRENT src tree.
>
> So, I'm sorry, but I think you should pick one of the other *BSDs at
> this point.
>
> mcl

I've been a hobbyist user of FreeBSD on sparc64 for quite a while. I've had
reasonable luck with 11.X, issues with 12.X. Going forward I'd recommend
OpenBSD, its been very stable for me, very few issues and many packages
are available pre-built.
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