From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A14138CD1 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26740E096D; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 390D9E08F3 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.6.15.11] (static-50-126-85-30.cor02.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.126.85.30]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jmorgan) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E294340F9D for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5558B560.8080704@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 08:36:00 -0700 From: Jack Morgan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Sparc Arch status Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0098ba91-70af-4c01-add9-7f4ed6894d32 X-Archives-Hash: 4d0686def61088789d2741a816d4244b All, I wanted to send out an update on the Sparc arch team status. My overall plan is to reduce the total number of keywords for sparcto a more manageable level. I'd like to continue to have sparc be a stable arch for gentoo for as long as it makes sense. I'm hoping to get some feedback from the community as to what should be supported and what can be reduced. (1) Bugzilla At the time of writing, here is the bug count for sparc. There is a good amount of keywording to do here and I'll start working on these in a week. sparc: total (172), keywordreq (67), stablereq(85) (2) Installation (Wiki/Releng) The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well. The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system. (3) Infra There is one developer machine[1] to use for keyword testing. Please request access from the contact in you would like a shell account. (4) Profiles (a) systemd support I tried for several days to get systemd working on sparc. systemd just seg faulted on boot up. In fact, I had trouble getting udev to start. It just produced an error "ignoring: Invalid argument error initializing netlink socket" and didn't start. Since udev didn't start, i was not able to log in nor ssh (no network interface found). I made the switch to eudev and eudev started just fine. I'll file a couple of bugs in a week and go from there. I'll work with the systemd team to resolve these problems. (b) gnome/kde desktop support I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop if systemd isn't supported on sparc. I'm note sure it makes sense long term nor have developer resources to continue to keyword it. I have a couple of desktop systems so can test easily but running xfce4 atm. I'm open to others opinions. (c) java support The java team said they don't have cycles to support sparc. Support would have to come from the sparc team or the community. Unless someone steps up to help out with java, I'll propose to drop support on sparc. Thanks to the java team for helping us know what needs to be done to support java or not. (5) anything else? Is there anything I missed? Other sections of gentoo? [1]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines Thanks, -- Jack Morgan Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan Fingerprint = DD42 EA48 D701 D520 C2CD 55BE BF53 C69B 761D 8E0A