[rescue] WTB: Sun Ultra 45 MB for T2 SDE development sparc64

[Ethan Hawke]

Hello Iggi,

Good to see some attention to the UltraSPARC port of Linux, I stopped 
updating my kernel at around 5.9 as the bit rot was getting extreme. For 
me personally the late 5 series kernels were broken on all platforms 
except the Fusion platforms (Ultra 1/2) and the later T series servers. 
I haven't closely followed Rene work, so not sure how many of those have 
been fixed.

I am not geographically conveniently located to help directly (and don't 
have a U45), but is there a particular reason why a U45 MB is desirable? 
A V245 or V215 would be much cheaper/easier to obtain and is 
architecturally identical to an Ultra 45.

Cheers,
Ethan

On 21/9/24 22:19, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via rescue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently we have made huge progress with T2 SDE (Linux) as stable an 
> modern OS for our Sun Ultras (sparc64). Rene a Linux kernel developer 
> has fixed several bugs that have been introduced over the years by 
> many people so that we have a quite stable version which no other 
> distro has achieved so far. For further SMP tests we are looking for 
> an Ultra 45 mainboard (with at least populated sockets for CPU and 
> RAM). Surely appreciate donations but also if someone is willing to 
> sell at a fair price that would be very much welcome. You can follow 
> development of T2 SDE development on yt, twitch or join the discord. 
> Btw T2 SDE Linux also runs in an LDOM.
>
> Cheers
>
> Iggi
>
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