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

[Alexander Jacocks]

Ethan,

I was unaware of the Arch-UltraSPARC port. How functional is it? Are there
a number of users?

Nice work!
- Alex

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:32 AM Ethan Hawke via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> 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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