<div dir="ltr"><div>Ethan,</div><div><br></div><div>I was unaware of the Arch-UltraSPARC port. How functional is it? Are there a number of users?</div><div><br></div><div>Nice work!</div><div>- Alex<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:32 AM Ethan Hawke via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Hello Iggi,</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
Ethan<br>
</p>
<div>On 23/09/2024 6:04 pm, Ignacio Soriano
Hernandez via rescue wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks for the infos. </div>
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<div dir="auto">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. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Cheers</div>
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<div dir="auto">Iggi</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Ethan Hawke via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>>
schrieb am Sa. 21. Sept. 2024 um 15:08:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello
Iggi,<br>
<br>
Good to see some attention to the UltraSPARC port of Linux,
I stopped <br>
updating my kernel at around 5.9 as the bit rot was getting
extreme. For <br>
me personally the late 5 series kernels were broken on all
platforms <br>
except the Fusion platforms (Ultra 1/2) and the later T
series servers. <br>
I haven't closely followed Rene work, so not sure how many
of those have <br>
been fixed.<br>
<br>
I am not geographically conveniently located to help
directly (and don't <br>
have a U45), but is there a particular reason why a U45 MB
is desirable? <br>
A V245 or V215 would be much cheaper/easier to obtain and is
<br>
architecturally identical to an Ultra 45.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ethan<br>
<br>
On 21/9/24 22:19, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via rescue
wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Currently we have made huge progress with T2 SDE
(Linux) as stable an <br>
> modern OS for our Sun Ultras (sparc64). Rene a Linux
kernel developer <br>
> has fixed several bugs that have been introduced over
the years by <br>
> many people so that we have a quite stable version
which no other <br>
> distro has achieved so far. For further SMP tests we
are looking for <br>
> an Ultra 45 mainboard (with at least populated sockets
for CPU and <br>
> RAM). Surely appreciate donations but also if someone
is willing to <br>
> sell at a fair price that would be very much welcome.
You can follow <br>
> development of T2 SDE development on yt, twitch or join
the discord. <br>
> Btw T2 SDE Linux also runs in an LDOM.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Iggi<br>
><br>
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