On 2016-01-24, "Christoph R. Murauer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quotes taked from Christian Weisgerber : > >> It's the comparatively popular platforms like powerpc and sparc64 >> that are in dire need of help if OpenBSD is not to turn into an >> amd64-only platform. That was a plea for help. Well, a pointer to where help would be actually... helpful. People need to run these platforms, find problems, and fix them. However, I'm afraid you'll find that most of the low hanging fruit has been picked and addressing the problems that matter will require heavy lifting. For instance, landry@'s powerpc package builds are crippled by the unreliability of the build machines. Given the plural, we don't think that the hardware is flakey. Some kernel bug(s) randomly causes processes to die. Vague guesses have been offered. Maybe it's a pmap problem. Somebody with considerable time and skill needs to wade in there. Or looking a bit into the future, I'll mention the elephant in the room and say that architectures without clang support are doomed. >> Going by previous experience, it's conceivable that somebody else >> will step in to build the release and possibly a few packages. That was not a plea for help. I meant to say that some OpenBSD developer may step in and do some builds on their own hardware. I think that happened e.g. for 5.8/sparc. This is really the last stage of an architecture's death, long after it has ceased to be useful. > Let's say someone will build releases and packages, would the project > accept this builds Would you like the project to accept builds from a random stranger? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
