On 10/28/19 8:12 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 09:02:13AM -0700, Fred wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Will there ever be a sparc64 port of Devuan?
> Very very likely no. The focus of this distribution is fixing systemd
> caused regression, not porting. And reviving the arch would require a lot
> of effort:
>
> Sparc is dead. Oracle killed its hardware in 2016-17, and was mostly
> hostile to Linux development for it (and Solaris is now dead, too). The
> kernel maintainer did the last commit in Nov 2018, any newer stuff is
> someone doing drive-by work to avoid blockers to an unrelated arch-indep
> change, same as happens with other dead archs.
>
> It might be tempting to do that effort to allow some hardware not go to
> waste, but human time is expensive, hardware cheap -- thus I'd recommend
> migrating to a supported arch sooner.
>
>
> Meow!

Hi Adam,
Thanks for your response.  I am planning to change from Debian (x86) to
Devuan but I also have a Sun U10 that has been running Solaris 2.6 for
21 years that is very useful but will probably have to fall by the wayside.

Best regards,
Fred