sparc port status

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:42:29 +0100 Mark Schouten <mark at prevented.net> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:14:17 -0400 Lou Ruppert <lruppert at louruppert.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >I haven't been able to find much information about the discontinuation 
>> >of sparc support in Ubuntu.  Does that mean that there will be no 
>> >further releases past Gutsy as far as ISO images and packages go, or 
>> >does it simply mean that Canonical won't "officially" support it, but 
>> >that new releases will continue to happen.  It's sounding like I'm 
going 
>> >to have to migrate to Solaris or Debian if I want to continue using my 
>> >Sun gear.
>> >
>> 
>> As I understand it, it means Canonical doesn't support it commercially 
and 
>> that Sparc issues won't be considered release blockers.  To the extent 
it's 
>> reasonable without owning the hardware, all the developers I know of 
take 
>> the non-official archs quite seriously.
>
>It is kinda funny since the Ubuntu Weekly did write about this article:
>http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9897872-16.html
>
>You would expect Sun and Canonical to become better friends and try to
>support eachothers hard-/software. 
>
>Scott, are you saying that the lack of hardware is one of the main
>issues for discontinuing support for Sparc? I think that should be
>something Sun can fix.
>
>Mark a.k.a. Jeeves_
>
>PS: I've just setup a platform for the Ubuntu-release in .nl, based on
>two T1000's (Sun Sparc) running Hardy and a X4500 (Sun x64) running
>Gutsy.
>
No. I'm saying most developers don't have one, although there are community 
managed Sparcs that we can get access to if it's really needed.  AFAIK, 
Canonical has sufficient hardware supportto support builds.  Community 
resources are managed through ubuntuwire.(org/com).

Scott K