On 11/24/2011 04:51 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
I agree the reason becomes less compelling as more capable systems become more commonplace, but I do not agree ancient RISC boxes are no longer an interesting target for current NTP builds.The machine I use (and many of us, too) has a MIPS-like chip, the Loongson.
I don't think portability has anything to do with age or family of the processor, but more with the operating system. Ancient RISC boxes were running only very small parts of the GNU userspace. Instead, modern ARM/MIPS/SPARC/PowerPC machines are often GNU/Linux or Busybox/Linux (and if the latter, they are cross-compiled with a GNU toolchain).
Paolo
