Re: [RFC PATCH 0/13] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

[Romain Dolbeau]

Le sam. 19 déc. 2020 à 22:41, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> Another said that it would be a shame to sunset sun4m and sun4d because
> there are so many machines around, and netbsd is also active on the
> sparc32 area.

Yes, those were plentiful back in the day and there's still quite a few around.

> The second mail also re-reminded me of an interesting project
> implementing SPARC V8 and the sun4m platform in VHDL.

There's also new hardware being developed for SBus systems :-)
<https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA>
(disclaimer: work-in-progress and shameless self-promotion here!).

If there's still a distribution willing to build for Sparc v8, then I
believe the kernel
should try to keep support of the relevant machine architectures if at all
possible...

Cordially,

-- 
Romain Dolbeau