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</sponsor>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Ports on PowerPC</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexey</given>
<common>Dokuchaev</common>
</name>
<email>danfe@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The Ports Collection typically receives less attention on
Tier-2 architectures than on Tier-1 architectures, although
several build-runs were performed at various points in the past,
and broken ports were marked as such at those times.</p>
<p>Some of the Tier-2 platforms, such as PowerPC and ARM,
have improved considerably recently, both on &os;'s and the
compilers' sides, but as the tree is not rebuilt on the cluster
very often, it was suspected that many ports are marked BROKEN
while they in fact now build and run correctly.</p>
<p>Over the past several weeks, 26 ports that were indeed
broken on at least PowerPC had been fixed, 58 ports that were
incorrectly marked as broken (left-overs from the old times) were
unmarked, and fewer than 40 ports still have issues requiring
further work.
</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>The Ports Collection could benefit a lot from more frequent sweeps
targetting Tier-2 systems.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Recent work on QEMU-backed emulators and the
much-anticipated cross-building of ports are essential pieces to
bring &os; packages on par with the base system's support,
architecture-wise.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>