svn commit: r42887 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Oct 8 00:26:26 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Oct  8 00:26:26 2013
New Revision: 42887
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42887

Log:
  - Add Q3 report for the sparc64 port
  
  Submitted by:	marius

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Oct  7 23:21:03 2013	(r42886)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Tue Oct  8 00:26:26 2013	(r42887)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 25 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 26 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
@@ -1317,4 +1317,40 @@
 	<tt>mdoc(7)</tt> would be an excellent addition.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os;/sparc64</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Marius</given>
+	  <common>Strobl</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>marius at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>There are some things going on with &os;/sparc64 port behind
+	the scenes.</p>
+
+      <p>For one, after having fixed all remaining problems and starting
+	with 9.2-RELEASE, release bits for this architecture are
+	cross-built on the &os; Project cluster.  As one might already
+	have noticed, this means that from now on, sparc64 install sets
+	and images including those for ALPHA, BETA, and RC builds, are
+	already available along with those for the other platforms
+	supported by &os;.  It also means that since August 2013,
+	automatically cross-built monthly &os;/sparc64 snapshots are
+	distributed via the official project mirrors.  Hopefully, this
+	can be soon extended further with <tt>freebsd-update(8)</tt>
+	support for sparc64.</p>
+
+      <p>Second, the X.Org ports have been fixed to work on sparc64 when
+	built with <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob.  However, it still needs
+	to be evaluated whether the recently committed update to Mesa
+	9.1.6 has introduced any breakage.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
