Christian, I am willing to help. My stable of machines includes:
* SunBlade 100 (sparc64) * HP C3700 (hppa) * SGI O2 (sgi) * AlphaStation 500/400 (alpha) * VAXstation 3100 (VAX) - I can improve this if necessary. I have found a VAXstation 4000 that is more capable on eBay * Mac Mini G4 (macppc) * Thinkpad T21 (i386) How can I help and make people feel comfortable relative to security? Thanks, Bryan > On Jan 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > >> On 2016-01-24, "Christoph R. Murauer" <n...@nawi.is> wrote: >> >> Quotes taked from Christian Weisgerber : >> >>> It's the comparatively popular platforms like powerpc and sparc64 >>> that are in dire need of help if OpenBSD is not to turn into an >>> amd64-only platform. > > That was a plea for help. Well, a pointer to where help would be > actually... helpful. > > People need to run these platforms, find problems, and fix them. > However, I'm afraid you'll find that most of the low hanging fruit > has been picked and addressing the problems that matter will require > heavy lifting. > > For instance, landry@'s powerpc package builds are crippled by the > unreliability of the build machines. Given the plural, we don't > think that the hardware is flakey. Some kernel bug(s) randomly > causes processes to die. Vague guesses have been offered. Maybe > it's a pmap problem. Somebody with considerable time and skill > needs to wade in there. > > Or looking a bit into the future, I'll mention the elephant in the > room and say that architectures without clang support are doomed. > >>> Going by previous experience, it's conceivable that somebody else >>> will step in to build the release and possibly a few packages. > > That was not a plea for help. > > I meant to say that some OpenBSD developer may step in and do some > builds on their own hardware. I think that happened e.g. for > 5.8/sparc. This is really the last stage of an architecture's > death, long after it has ceased to be useful. > >> Let's say someone will build releases and packages, would the project >> accept this builds > > Would you like the project to accept builds from a random stranger? > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
