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<p>Hi Alex,</p>
<p>I ported it as a personal project, me and a friend are the only
people that use it.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>Cheers,<br>
Ethan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/09/2024 3:46 am, Alexander
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<div>I was unaware of the Arch-UltraSPARC port. How functional
is it? Are there a number of users?</div>
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<div>Nice work!</div>
<div>- Alex<br>
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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>
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<div>On 23/09/2024 6:04 pm, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via
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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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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>
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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>
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> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Iggi<br>
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