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Date:      Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:40:02 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, sparc64@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Message-ID:  <20160808184002.GA15252@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160805153236.GA16908@funkthat.com>
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On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:32:36AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> If you care, then give donations to the FreeBSD Foundation, and say
> you want/need sparc64 and/or sun4v support...

>From what I've been told, the Foundation isn't really interested in
putting resources towards sparc64 support.

fwiw, I have a stack of machines that I would donate if there were some
place to host them.  (I was able to acquire them inexpensively from my
last employer; more such machines show up now and then).

>From time to time I build packages on one of them.  If there is interest
I will poke at making some for 11.0.  Given the electricity cost (figure
$25/server/mo) I'm not too interested in leaving them on 24x7.

Especially in the Texas summers.

mcl



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