Hey,

I would also nicely ask Agnar to report the current status of his work and how 
others can help him.

Cheers,
Adam

> On Feb 27, 2017, at 11:09 PM, Adam Števko <adam.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Gary,
> 
> I am sorry, but as of this moment we don’t have any way to test and merge 
> these changes into oi-userland. SPARC is not an officially supported 
> OpenIndiana hardware platform. I understand that there might be a huge demand 
> for SPARC, but we are lacking infrastructure without which we can't do 
> anything SPARC-related.
> 
> The current plan is as follows:
> - get latest bootable sparc system
> - run java/jenkins on it
> 
> After we have this small build infrastructure, massive work can happen on the 
> userland front - fast rebuild, separate SPARC repo etc - everything the 
> hipster branch has. As for your changes, I would suggest to keep commit per 
> component change and publish to a repo, where it can be downloaded from. I 
> would encourage more SPARC people to join efforts and help Agnar with 
> whatever needs to be done, so the goal (fully up-to-date SPARC variant of OI)
> 
> P.S: if anybody wants to start debating SPARC support, don’t spend time on 
> that. Agnar could use help!
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam
> 
>> On Feb 27, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been slowly building the components of Hipster oi-userland on my
>> SPARC machine.  In this process, I've accumulated dozens of changes to
>> component Makefiles and new patches for source files.  All of my
>> changes are intended to have no effect on builds for x86 hardware.
>> 
>> How do I submit these changes for incorporation into the oi-userland
>> code base?
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> -Gary Mills-         -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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