On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I was specifically talking about older *systems*, not chips.
Do you have any examples of particular systems that are no longer supported? I suppose our RAM usage has increased beyond the capabilities of some systems. The i386 architecture also had it's CPU requirements upgraded, dropping some systems. > Not a hope in Hell. Well, maybe 1%. Over the last year or so Oracle has > succeeded in changing SPARC from a commodity architecture to something very > similar to IBM's mainframes, and if Debian can't boot problems upstream for > 32-bit SPARC there's no reason to assume that 64-bit will be any better. > > Even if unavoidable, the loss of SPARC (and/or SPARC64) is unfortunate since > for about 10 years it was possible to pick up nice big SMP systems on eBay, > which could exercise aspects of threading etc. that other architectures > could not reach. As long as the upstream GCC and Linux communities support SPARC, it should be reasonably easy to re-bootstrap a port if anyone cares. > I'm definitely not blaming Debian for anything, but there are still > occasional rumblings in areas like the Free pascal Compiler due to residual > library path issues. IIRC those were bugs in fpc that were exposed by multiarch existing; they were hard-coding paths instead of asking GCC. Do you know of any other multiarch related issues? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6e4lacst_u_qbktatl417wl+uvgnt3q3ajraennbhe...@mail.gmail.com
