Sparc64 and FreeBSD 13.0

[Joe Kozak]

Is that for basic support in the compiler linker bits?

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:58 PM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:34:46PM -0600, Joe Kozak wrote:
> > I put my vote of support in for someone doing some updating if
> > possible.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work like that in volunteer projects.
>
> I estimate it would take 1-3 months to fix the toolchain -- which
> would only save us the existing systems (manufactured up to 2005).
> When I last looked at sun4v (the newer systems) I estimated 3-5
> months.
>
> That's full-time activity from someone who *used* to do systems
> work, but has not for many years, and would have to come up to
> speed on 18 zillion things.
>
> mcl
>
> (fwiw I am a software engineer, ergo, my estimates suck.)
>