On 2016-08-15 22:54, Jack Morgan wrote:
Following up to my email from a year ago....
We do have some people in the community who are interested in sparc. In
fact, we have one kernel developer who would like to get multilib
working.
In addition, I have two who are interested in helping by being arch
testers (AT).
I have made new profiles for sparc. They support 32bit / 64bit userland
and multilib both ways. I have yet to run into any major issues.
I need to finish up my developer application however.
(2) Installation (Wiki/Releng)
The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I
recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well.
The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of
perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system.
We really need an updated ISO and stage tarballs.
I have some from ~February, i'm not opposed to making more.
(a) systemd support
I tried for several days to get systemd working on sparc. systemd just
seg faulted on boot up. In fact, I had trouble getting udev to start.
It
just produced an error "ignoring: Invalid argument error initializing
netlink socket" and didn't start. Since udev didn't start, i was not
able to log in nor ssh (no network interface found). I made the switch
to eudev and eudev started just fine. I'll file a couple of bugs in a
week and go from there. I'll work with the systemd team to resolve
these
problems.
No update here and not sure of the status as I need to investigate
Should be fine with a kernel newer than 3.16, i only tested with a 64bit
userland however
(b) gnome/kde desktop support
I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop if systemd
isn't supported on sparc. I'm note sure it makes sense long term nor
have developer resources to continue to keyword it. I have a couple of
desktop systems so can test easily but running xfce4 atm. I'm open to
others opinions.
I'm going to drop support for all desktops except xfce4. If someone
else
wants to help out and support another desktop, they are free to join
the
team and do so.
No comment here, i have not attempted to build any DE's on sparc.
(c) java support
The java team said they don't have cycles to support sparc. Support
would have to come from the sparc team or the community. Unless
someone
steps up to help out with java, I'll propose to drop support on sparc.
Thanks to the java team for helping us know what needs to be done to
support java or not.
Support already dropped last year. Thanks java team.
Debian has java working on sparc64, maybe we should take a look at that?
I need to schedule the annual arch team meeting to elect the arch lead.
Current members are are listed below. If you are not actively working
on
sparc, then please update you status.
Lead(s) none (No lead election date set)
Members
Agostino Sarubbo (ago) - Security bugs primarily )
Jeroen Roovers (jer) - ( Porting )
Jack Morgan (jmorgan) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Pacho Ramos (Pacho) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Mike Frysinger (vapier) - ( Core-only )
Michael Weber (xmw) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
[1]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines
Thanks,
I'm up for any position you need. After i have the developer status
worked out i plan to share quite a bit of code. I've been working
silently for too long.
