Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi, Reference:
> From:		John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com>
> Date:		Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:32:36 -0700

John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 07:29 -0800:
> > > FreeBSD has an opportunity to fill the void in the secondhand Oracle
> > > (Sun) Hardware market if people want to take it.... but I seriously
> > > don't see why anyone would buy new Oracle boxes and shove FreeBSD on
> > > them - unless their admins already manage FreeBSD on older + Intel hardware.
> > >
> > 
> > As always, someone has to write and debug the code.
> > 
> > Users are only as good as the revenue to generate to cover
> > development/debugging/deployment costs.
> > 
> > So if you're a sparc64 user, how much would you be willing to pay for
> > freebsd/sparc64 support and development?
> > 
> > I'm all for keeping an architecture like sparc around, as long as
> > there's active development and active users. MIPS has both. ARM has
> > both. Powerpc has both. Sparc is missing some active developers, but
> > it has plenty of FreeBSD users that speak up (and more users that only
> > speak up privately.) So, if you want to see sparc64 support continue,
> > this requires a grass roots effort to get more development happening -
> > either users need to step up, or someone has to start contributing
> > money.
> 
> If you care, then give donations to the FreeBSD Foundation, and say
> you want/need sparc64 and/or sun4v support...
> 
> Or find a developer to pay for the work...

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> These are the straight
> forward ways to keep sparc64 alive...
> 
> -- 
>   John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

Cheers,
Julian
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