Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:32:16 -0800 From: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ppc@freebsd.org, pkubaj@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <CADyfeQXbfRwRfe=TGARM5GQaqwKkA=4jsLBcz8oCDar5azijFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com> References: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com>
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I have a PowerMac G5 (that I got recently) currently running 12. It was an awesome experience to install the system and quickly get going with "pkg install" right after; wasn't expecting binary packages to be available at all. I want to upgrade it to 13 but the last attempt at trying this release's installer failed to boot... need to try again; we'll see. On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:14 PM Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > So I want to get an idea if we can start trying to move FreeBSD/powerpc* > users from 12.X to 13.0 once 13.0 is released. > > The problem is that we have limitations on: > > - hardware resources w/rt building ports on 3 branches > > - human resources trying to support 3 branches > > The powerpc ports team (the entire handful of us) is talking about > dropping ports building for 12-STABLE in favor of starting to build > 14-CURRENT. > > How many people will this affect if we do so? > > fwiw, I personally believe 13.0 will be a complete superset except for: > > - ports that fail due to duplicate_symbol > > and all of those are problems shared with even amd64. > > (Also, I personally believe that it is fair to say "we do not really > support powerpc* on 10.X or 11.Y. Please upgrade.") > > How many people will these changes effect? It's time to speak up ... > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- jmmv.dev
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