I wholly agree. Applause to Adrian and everyone else here. Group efforts to this size on these subjects are awe-inspiring.
Noah On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 16:32 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Also, and this is more important, your work is not only exceptional but vastly appreciated. Pay no attention to my frustrated tone as that is just me *trying* to move forwards and do testing and get a machine running. You are doing very valuable work and I really understand that it may feel like a silly treadmill to run upon. Many machines. Multiple architectures. Why? Why even bother with old sparc? Well the last thing I want in this world is a place where only x86 exists. That would be criminal. I am happy to see the concept of RISC-V but we all know there is no hardware. Yet. There are emulators like qemu which seem to work fairly well for RISC-V and possibly even ppc64 for a variety of machine specs. All of this is *needed* in the computer world. I have worked on Sparc systems for at least twenty years and I am still baffled at 4AM in the morning why bother test a new Apache apr release on Solaris? Mostly because I don't want a world run by a single perspective and a single manufacturer. So people need to be there, good people, doing good work. Also I have arm boards and a collection of Apple PowerMac boxen kicking around and even an old DEC Alpha server. I happen to really like the IBM power cpu approach. It is a great system architecture and let's face it .. the most powerful machine in the world is IBM Power9 with NVidia and all running Linux. Sadly Red Hat but let's not go there. Anyways ... I am rambling again. Trying to say "thank you". Dennis
