>>>>> "Jason" == Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:

    Jason> What are the issues currently standing in the way of
    Jason> switching the sparc port over to USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN? Note I
    Jason> have nearly completed an i386 -> sparc cross-compile of the
    Jason> entire system with the new toolchain (mmm, ./build.sh).

Last time I tried it (begin october) I ran into this known problem:

  misc/13927: binutils 2.11 won't work on NetBSD/sparc

The mentioned patch seems to resolve this problem but isn't applied to
-current sources (, yet?).

Markus.