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In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no |
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interest) because they appears understaffed. |
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Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- |
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machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no ISO[2] available and |
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there is no handbook[3] for it. |
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The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install one of |
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that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? |
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An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a declared |
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unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). |
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Another example is that we have no stable keyword on GCC/glibc for m68k and I |
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don't know if I need to use another compiler or another libc. |
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Checking on bugzilla I saw no report for some of those arches, so for me that |
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_partially_ means that probably there are very few users for those arches on |
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gentoo. |
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Now, imho, we have 2 choice: |
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1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook |
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2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. |
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What do you think about? |
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Ref: |
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[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml |
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[2]: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml |
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[3]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/#doc_chap2 |
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[4]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook- |
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mips.xml?style=printable&full=1 |
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Agostino Sarubbo / ago -at- gentoo.org |
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