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

[Ethan Hawke]

Hi Alex,

I ported it as a personal project, me and a friend are the only people 
that use it.

I never bothered with X and graphics stuff, but in the terminal it works 
great, I think I ended up doing a 100 or so packages.

Cheers,
Ethan

On 24/09/2024 3:46 am, Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> 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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