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 252F913888F for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DB1421C021; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77EDD21C00E for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-f45.google.com (mail-qe0-f45.google.com [209.85.128.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B5FA33DED8 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f45.google.com with SMTP id b4so315532qen.32 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:59:19 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.127.139 with SMTP id ng11mr23289465qeb.54.1360097959389; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:59:19 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.49.13.138 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:58:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <51115CC4.2040602@gentoo.org> References: <51115CC4.2040602@gentoo.org> From: Matt Turner Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:58:59 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: zfs-devel@zfsonlinux.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: e6d76b51-8bb0-4bc3-a1dd-65ba1dfd9ea4 X-Archives-Hash: 2bf3bed3e0a5dee6e0278bf39f20ea2f On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao 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.