Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

From	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416
Date	2024-09-15 16:50 +0200
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Hi Matthias,

On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 13:50 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > It is trivial for us to add support for additional architectures once
> > they are minimally supported in upstream Linux (we may also require
> > that dpkg recognises their triplet; I'm not sure).  There is no
> > requirement that we define a kernel configuration for the architecture
> > at the same time, or ever (see x32).
> > 
> > Can we assume that new Debian Linux ports will be able to satisfy that
> > or would that be a problem sometimes?
> 
> CCing Adrian, he recently wanted to provide cross toolchains for 
> sparc-linux-gnu and ia64-linux-gnu, which the kernel doesn't provide 
> anymore. So a design which allows these toolchains would be helpful.

I actually don't care about ia64 anymore as the architecture was beyond
repair and upstream really wanted to get rid of it.

Having said that, a cross-toolchain for 32-bit SPARC would be nice to have
(binutils, glibc, gcc and linux-libc-dev) to perform regular integration
tests for the sparc-unknown-linux-gnu target as well as the 32-bit SPARC
kernel.

32-bit SPARC has been adapted as the Leon CPU for space applications such
as satellites and space craft. Thanks to this, SPARC is also being actively
maintained in the Linux kernel again and there is solid funding behind the
port.

Oracle also has some people actively maintaining the software stack for SPARC,
allegedly even on Linux although the latter doesn't have high priority at the
moment.

Adrian

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Bastian's offer in #1065416 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-08-17 06:10 +0200
  Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-09-04 15:40 +0200
    Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-09 02:20 +0200
      Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-12 00:40 +0200
        Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 stefanor@debian.org - 2024-09-12 12:00 +0200
          Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2024-09-15 14:10 +0200
        Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-09-12 14:40 +0200
          Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-12 20:10 +0200
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-09-14 12:00 +0200
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2024-09-15 14:00 +0200
              Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-15 16:50 +0200
        Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-19 22:10 +0200
          Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-11-28 22:10 +0100
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-11-30 22:20 +0100
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2025-01-28 00:50 +0100

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