Converting to LRA (calling all maintainers)

[David Miller]

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:43:43 +0200

>> p.s.  Are there plans for converting the SPARC port?
> 
> There are more than plans - actual patches by DaveM that were installed at 
> some point and then reverted quickly because of unexpected fallout.

Yeah, sparc64 failed to bootstrap and it was the stage2 that was
miscompiled.

I lacked the time to debug it properly so we reverted.