Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dear Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following
> architectures that is willing to help ZFS development?
>
> Alpha
> HPPA
> IA-64
> MIPS/MIPS64
> PPC/PPC64
> SH
> SPARC/SPARC64
>
> I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year.
> The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not
> been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h,
> which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches
> because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms.
>
> People willing (and able) to help should email me with their
> architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not
> required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you
> with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture.
>
> Yours truly,
> Richard Yao
>

I talked to ryao on IRC, but didn't seem to get my point across:

(Almost?) no one runs Gentoo on any of these architectures for
anything other than the novelty. There is zero point in maintaining
ZFS on them, and it only stands to add load to the arch teams.

These architectures operate on a
we-only-keyword-things-necessary-or-users-ask-for policy. I don't
think ZFS falls into either of these cases.