[rescue] Fwd: Which current Linux works on SB2000?

[Nemo Nusquam]

Greetings, All.

On 2021-04-30 22:50, Ethan Hawke wrote (in part):
> However! The Linux SPARC port is quite poor, and runs on relatively 
> few machines, it generally only runs on low end machines and 
> coolthreads (T-Series) servers.

I am really trying to see whether gm2 (built on gcc) builds on 
Linux/Sparc.B  After gcc-4.1.2, gcc+gm2 generated incorrect code on 
Solaris 10.B  My test was to see whether it would build on Linux.

> Even though it runs on my 280R, it's not completely stable, I haven't 
> had it panic, but random process will crash in the background, and it 
> will sometimes get stuck on shutdown. My other fireplane system (a 
> V490) it kernel panics on boot, same with my E3000's and any 
> multiprocessor sun4m system (although I think it boots if you less 
> than 128MB of RAM).
>
> The BSDs are significantly higher quality if you just want a modern OS 
> running on it.

Indeed! I installed NetBSD without problems to see whether gm2 will 
build on it.B  (NetBSD lists sparc64 as Tier 1 and gcc-10 fixes the 
ctype_bits issue.)

Sincerely,
N.