[geeks] illumos to drop support for SPARC

[Phil Stracchino]

On 5/7/21 6:01 PM, Nathan Raymond wrote:
> I did find it a bit odd that they didn't seem to make any attempt to let
> anyone know about their lack of SPARC build hardware, didn't try to reach
> out to the larger community, and then just announced that because nobody
> has read their minds and helped them already, that they're just going to
> drop SPARC support.


I was thinking the same thing.  I started thinking about whether I had
any spare hardware I could send them, then realized it was pretty clear
they'd already made their decision.  I'm sure we could have collectively
FLOODED the with SPARC hardware.

This feels like "We don't actually want to support SPARC any more, and
we're using a lack of test hardware to justify it.  The entire world is
x86_64 anyway."


(Or AMD64, as it should be called, seeing as AMD invented the
architecture as a much simpler and better way of achieving the goals of
Intel's IA64 arch.  But Intel couldn't stand the thought of anything
going out the door with the letters 'AMD' anywhere on it.)


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