Am 21.02.2013 07:16, schrieb Saulius Krasuckas:
- On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, André Hentschel wrote:
this patch series removes the broken SPARC support. Reasons:
- It's broken, i wasted enough time already trying to fix that
It's sad to hear. Can you be more verbose on brokenness, please? Eg. namely what Sparc platform were you using for development?
Not sure anymore, Austin English was so kind to provide a machine with ssh access for me.
- Nobody cares - I sent an e-mail to everyone ever related to
Wine/SPARC based on addresses from our mailing lists - no answer in a week (and cw also has no customers for it)
You didn't catch this then: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2004-October/030355.html I care :)
Really? :) I mean this was 2004, and it doesn't look like you took action on this. Did you read e.g. http://wiki.winehq.org/SPARC or http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24142 in the meantime? Oh and you asked about learning SPARC assembler... It's quite easy to learn and a clever architecture, but anyway:
- If someone _would_ care the right thing to do would be a clean SPARC
64-bit port
So, the old port was 32-bit or mixed or what?
Yes, the old port was 32-bit only.
- It really can confuse people (more than a ARM/ARM64 port xD)
You mean random readers about host platforms Wine runs on;)?
OK, not the best point, i agree :) I think i meant to talk about Wine/SPARC confuses people, so don't mention it anywhere ;)
- SPARC is dead on the Desktop
:(
And last but not least: I had a bad experience with the Solaris community regarding Wine/SPARC
Oh. Is there any related public messages on the net? It would interesting to read and know those stories.
Mhh, that was on IRC, looks like there are no logs...