On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:
Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general?
Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ? I know the fedora sparc guys are moderately active, and there is sparc support in anaconda / yum / rpm and glibc..
I'm looking at it from the point of view that there is a lot of sparc hardware around, and CentOS, with its long life span is an ideal candidate to run on there - also given that the base does not change that much during the lifeterm, the amount of engineering that needs doing to make CentOS/sparc happen isnt that much, and once done - may not be too much of work.
If there is momentum around the idea and there are a few people willing to take up the efforts required I am quite happy to work with and make sure that a CentOS Sparc effort is possible. But I dont want to take on the whole thing myself - and my own sparc experience is quite limited ( although I have a blade1k and a netra 240, both of which I will make available to the effort ).