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I don't know how his basement rack looks but they are continuing slowly eliminating old architectures with almost no surviving hardware or that are unsupported by Clang. Loongson was eliminated in this release.

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It is largely if there is someone interested in maintaining the port. My favorite port is the luna88k an obscure Japanese unix workstation/server from the early 90's. I don't know how common they were in Japan, rare is my guess, and non-existent elsewhere, but there is one(only one as far as I can tell) dedicated Japanese developer willing to put the work in to keep it current. and every release a month or two after the official release he announces that the package build is done(it takes that long on the hardware).

I don't know how many users of luna88k there are, I don't frequent anywhere near the same ecosystem they would, but have never seen one, So from my point of view it is one person making releases for himself and I love that dedication. I don't have, nor do I want a luna88k, but it great that it exists.

So as far as I can tell that is all it takes to have a published obsd port, one person willing to put the work in.

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