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

[Ethan Hawke]

Hello Iggi,

Sure, I can join the Discord. I won't have a lot of time to help out, 
but I do have a working (and ready to go) example of every major Sun 
SPARC platform. I also ported Arch to UltraSPARC as well so have some 
experience with packaging (and some light code fixes).

Cheers,
Ethan

On 23/09/2024 6:04 pm, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via rescue wrote:
> 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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