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Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?

From: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>
To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, sparclinux at vger dot kernel dot org
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:02:08 +0100
Subject: Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?
References: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> <20070912.052331.48512526.davem@davemloft.net> <46E912A3.9090900@walrond.org> <200709131247.23430.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>

Eric Botcazou wrote:
> 
> There have been essentially no contributions to the SPARC toolchain by Sun or 
> Canonical people over the last few years.
> 

So, Sun really _don't_ give a damn about gnu/linux on sparc64.

What a shame; for the first time in years they have a CPU which is
competitive (for some useful workloads) and they are only serious about
supporting their increasingly niche Solaris OS? Go figure.

Andrew Walrond

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