Agreed that SPARC is probably a 'dead' platform and tick for tick my 6 core AMD64 screams by comparison. SPARC has always been very reliable though and I got mine very cheap. Would like to see them running since they're all still very usable machines.
I've got a Blade-2500 (2 x 1.6GHz) running Solaris 10 right now. The older ones (Ultra 30 and Ultra 1) run either OSOL NVxxxx or FreeBSD. I've never built OSOL from source but I can sure learn and would want to help any way I can. Like I said, OI sure impressed me when installed on the AMD64 machine!! I'll continue searching and reading what I can. Feel free to contact me for anything I can do.... Thanks all! On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]>wrote: > On 06/19/2012 04:28 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Sa?o Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> In a few weeks, the new SVr4 Pkg based Schillix will be ready and then > building > >>> a Sparc based system should be feasable. > >>> > >>> We need help from someone who has a sparc and who knows how to create a > >>> bootable system for recent OpenSolaris. > >> > >> I've got a few Netra 240s and some soon-to-be-retired T2000s lying > >> around, but I don't have much expertise on how to build that bootable > >> system. Maybe I can arrange for some of the machines to be sent to the > >> appropriate people here in Europe (can't pay for shipping though). > > > > I currently compile SchilliX-ON on a SunFire 280R, but I currently have > no > > access to a sun4v machine.... > > > > So if there was a way to do testing on a T2000, this would help a lot. > > We'll be retiring these machines from production over the coming months, > so once they are free to abuse, I can give it a go. > > -- > Saso > -- Randall D. DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered by OpenSuSE! http://www.opensuse.org <http://www.oracle.com/solaris>
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