On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 21:15 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 March 2017 at 20:49, Knut Omang <knut.om...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > Can we please keep the Sparc support in for a while still? > > Yes, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz and the Debian Project have > kindly provided me with access to a Sparc box. I'm planning > to send a patch that puts sparc into the 'supported' > category before 2.9 release.
good to hear! > I would note that so far I've found a couple of TCG > bugs of the "this just doesn't work at all" level, so > it doesn't look like anybody using sparc has been > doing any testing against git master... No, I tried a while ago myself without much success so there's awareness about this sad state. Hopefully we can get some momentum on it soon. > > > > When it comes to build platforms, a legitimate need to be able to keep > > anything > > running, I don't have any authority to promise away hardware or other forms > > of > > Sparc access, but I have been told that that part can be worked out in some > > way > > if we get enough support for this internally. > > I'd recommend trying to get a machine into the gcc compile > farm (assuming they'd be willing to take it) -- that way > it's accessible to developers for a range of open > source projects. I'll bring that suggestion forward, Thanks, Knut > > thanks > -- PMM
