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Matt, |
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I asked users who want ZFSOnLinux upstream to support additional |
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architectures to assist me in porting it. I CCed gentoo-dev@ because |
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many people in the Gentoo community that had already offered to help |
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with other things. |
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The only immediate effect that this will have on Gentoo is `env |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~* sys-fs/zfs` will work on additional architectures. If |
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users request that Gentoo support ZFS on their platforms, then we will |
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be in a position to consider that. |
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Yours truly, |
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Richard Yao |
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On 02/05/2013 03:58 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Dear Everyone, |
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>> Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following |
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>> architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? |
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>> Alpha |
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>> HPPA |
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>> IA-64 |
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>> MIPS/MIPS64 |
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>> PPC/PPC64 |
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>> SH |
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>> SPARC/SPARC64 |
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>> I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. |
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>> The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not |
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>> been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, |
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>> which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches |
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>> because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. |
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>> People willing (and able) to help should email me with their |
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>> architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not |
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>> required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you |
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>> with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture. |
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>> |
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>> Yours truly, |
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>> Richard Yao |
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>> |
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> |
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> I talked to ryao on IRC, but didn't seem to get my point across: |
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> (Almost?) no one runs Gentoo on any of these architectures for |
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> anything other than the novelty. There is zero point in maintaining |
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> ZFS on them, and it only stands to add load to the arch teams. |
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> These architectures operate on a |
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> we-only-keyword-things-necessary-or-users-ask-for policy. I don't |
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> think ZFS falls into either of these cases. |
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