<div dir="auto">It may sound heretical but you can use the QEMU emulator to emulate a Niagara CPU and then run your selected version of Solaris on that. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See for instance the info about the Niagara CPU booting Solaris 10, bottom of the table:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC">https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto">I bet giving it 16GB RAM would be a way to test out your build process, provided you have a x64 system with 24-32GB.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">\u2014Patrick </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:51\u202fPM Freya Fractal <<a href="mailto:freya@highenergymagic.net">freya@highenergymagic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u>
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<p>not as yet, no. we own <a href="http://highenergymagic.net" target="_blank">highenergymagic.net</a>, but we hadn't put up
anything there about it as-yet, mostly because it's only now that
we're really taking it seriously. It originally started as just us
seeing if things would compile, and expanded massively... we later
realised that we had broken the build in such a way that it is
highly likely that many of the important packages would have
undesired links to libraries (many of them 32-bit) in /opt/csw,
which is suboptimal, as the intent of this package is that it is
able to be installed on a clean Solaris 10u11 1/13 system. If
proof is required of what we have created, we are able to provide
the copy of FractalKit that we archived when we started the
project over, but be aware that it's an organically expanding
mess, none of the binaries and packages are signed and much of the
porting was done in a very inexperienced manner. The current plan
for FractalKit 25 is to build everything 64-bit clean, with no
links to OpenCSW libraries, with signed ELF binaries and each
component offered as a signed SVR4 package datastream. extended
goals are to distribute this as an ISO image that can be burnt to
a DVD and can be installed alongside Solaris at the "install
additional software" step of the installer, if we can figure out
how the Solaris installer expects the DVD's hierarchy to be
arranged.</p></div><div>
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via rescue wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I can't find anything about your project on the
web; do you have a website?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 30, 2025 at
11:12\u202fPM Freya Fractal via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hiya,<br>
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<br>
Like the subject line says. We're looking to see if anyone in
<br>
NZ/Australia has a SPARC (sun4u/sun4v) machine they'd be
willing to <br>
donate to the FractalKit project. FractalKit is a collection
of modern <br>
packages for Solaris 10/11 on SPARC, covering web servers
(Nginx 1.28, <br>
Apache 2.4.62), security (OpenSSL 3.4.0, GnuTLS 3.7), shell
utilities <br>
(coreutils 9.5, bash 5.3, zsh 5.9), tcsh), programming
languages (PHP <br>
8.4.1, Ruby 3.2.3, Perl 5.40.0, python 3.13), libraries and
development <br>
tools (too many to list), compilers (GCC 9.5.0 C, C++,
fortran, <br>
objective C), databases (SQLite 3.44.3, PostgreSQL 15.8,
MariaDB if we <br>
can get it to build), editors (nano 8.4, vim 9.1), and
replacements for <br>
network-facing services (primarily OpenSSH) that need to be
kept <br>
up-to-date, especially for those lacking MOS/Sunsolve access.
we're <br>
currently rebuilding the entire project from scratch after
realising we <br>
made some fatal errors, but we can send, on request, the full
previous <br>
build of FractalKit as a demonstration. However, we've run
into a <br>
problem: The only SPARC machine we have is a Sun Blade 150,
with a <br>
650MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 768MiB of ram, and an IDE hard disk.
Does it <br>
compile things? Yes. Does it also take in excess of 24 hours
to build <br>
something like gcc? also yes. So we're looking for a bit of
SPARC kit, <br>
preferably SUN4V, that one of yall lovely entities would be
willing to <br>
send to us to help advance the project.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance,<br>
<br>
<br>
Freya<br>
<br>
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