From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/11282 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: SPARCv9 Support Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:54:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20170424135456.GR17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493042113 21094 195.159.176.226 (24 Apr 2017 13:55:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:55:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Rob Lyerly To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-11297-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Apr 24 15:55:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d2eSG-0005Jf-BQ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21677 invoked by uid 550); 24 Apr 2017 13:55:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 21655 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2017 13:55:08 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:11282 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:39:28AM -0400, Rob Lyerly wrote: > Hello, > > We've been using musl as a libc alternative for ARMv8 and x86-64 for a year > now and want to also use it for work we're starting on a SPARCv9 machine. > Has anybody done any porting of musl to this architecture or would we have > to port it ourselves? I'm not aware of any work porting to SPARC yet, but there has been some level of interest from others in the past. Porting it yourselves is definitely an option; it's not terribly hard, though familiarity with the code/project helps. Also FYI, a few of the ports we have now have been done by contributors/members of the musl community and partly or fully sponsored by organizations that needed them; if you have funds available there might be someone interested in picking it up as work. Or if you have students of your own (noticed the .edu) it could be a good project for them. Rich