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

[Ignacio Soriano Hernandez]

Hi Ethan,

Thanks for the infos.

If you are interested in following up on the development just let me know
and I can send you a special invite for the T2 SDE Discord to follow-up on
the #sparc-sun Linux development.

Cheers

Iggi


Ethan Hawke via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> schrieb am Sa. 21. Sept. 2024
um 15:08:

> 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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