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On 01/09/2016 03:34 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote: |
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> The sparc port seems to be aging, in particular the installation ISO and |
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> stage 3 archives. I'd like to propose a few things and get some opinions. |
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> 1. We need new stage 3 libraries and installation ISO's. That's probably |
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> a given. |
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> 2. We need a stage 3 with a 64bit userland. Thanks to Oracle, we now |
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> have kernel / driver support for many newer sparc boxes that can utilize |
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> large amounts of ram and don't see much of a performance reduction by |
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> running 64bit code. I don't think killing the 32bit userland single-lib |
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> archive is a good idea as some people probably see much better |
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> performance on older boxes. However, we could set the multilib profile |
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> to default to 64bit with 32bit backwards compatibility. We could also |
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> just make new stage 3 profile / profiles. |
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> 3. Maybe we should consider finalizing the multilib profile, and make it |
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> look more like the x86 profile as far as functionality is concerned. |
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> I figure there aren't a lot of people around here, but i am willing to |
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> start doing all of this by myself. Who knows, maybe we can attract a few |
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> more developers if the port gets a bit more aligned with the rest of |
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> gentoo. I have quite a few machines at my disposal. A few V215's, |
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> T1000's, M4000's, T5120's, Netra X1's, and probably a few more that i |
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> can't think of at the moment. I plan on setting myself up a few build |
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> servers, anyone else who wants to help is welcome to an account on them. |
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New installation ISO's sounds like a plan, when I installed my gentoo in |
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an LDOM, I had to use an ISO from 2009. But I think also the binutils |
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package might need some work. |
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-kp |