DEAR OpenSolaris/Illumos/OpenIndiana COMMUNITY:
This is the first time that I logged in into my email account in over 3 weeks (or so). Yes, no joke. Some short infos: 0.) I did not give up. 1.) My boxes and I are busy and running hot for a month now. 2.) No party, no girls, no nothing. Only Powerdrinks, Burgers, yet other energy drinks, Cola and other "healthy" diet. No holidays and also: No paid work, simply because there is _no_ time. 3.) All OI 151a consolidations are more or less built, NOW including JDS. HOWEVER: Bootstrapping an OS is one thing, bootstrapping IPS and running pkgdep is another!. It is not only a science. And during the process I learned a lot from Rich Lowe's, Alasdair and Garrett's (and other's) postings, reports, comments, docs, that were easy to find on openindiana.org, illumos and via google. 4.) As I wanted to meet the promised August 31st deadline, on August 30th I temorarily stopped my IPS efforts and instead decided to first offer a LiveDVD. To be precise: A Jumbo LIveDVD with the new upcoming openXsun as X11, that boots directly into OI-JDS. Additionally I put everything that I already built into solaris.zlib plus I also put Studio12,1 (redistributable!) and onbld plus dtbld/jdsbld/pkgbld . We end up with 11GB ! But thanks to gzip-9 clofi compression, all that together still fits on a normal 4GB DVD-R :) So much for the theory. As without 100% functioning dependencies and interdependencies I cannot use distro_const, I created the DVD manually (DVD, solaris.zlib, solarismisc.zlib, boot_archive and compressed files in the latter. This is nothing new to me, as all previous releases were created before distro_const even existed. Nevertheless: Is is and always has been tricky, to get everything together and to work. But this time I ran into a few extra mysterious boot freezes, that were not easy to analyze. Here the proof: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 33 Sep 4 17:52 . drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 14 Sep 3 07:42 .. -rw------- 1 root root 11091347 Sep 4 09:24 core -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 618311680 Sep 9 2008 Natamar_0.4__b96_sparc_cdrom.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4272926720 Sep 3 07:40 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__000.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4366315520 Sep 3 11:02 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__001.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 11:24 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__002.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4366315520 Sep 3 12:08 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__003.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 19:41 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__004.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 21:10 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__005.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 21:28 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__006.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 21:42 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__007.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 23:17 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__008.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 3 23:58 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__009.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 00:12 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__010.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 00:28 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__011.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 00:45 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__012.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 01:03 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__013.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 01:31 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__014.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 01:53 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__015.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 02:09 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__016.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 02:19 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__017.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 02:49 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__018.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 03:03 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__019.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 03:29 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__020.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576040960 Sep 4 03:54 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__021.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4493127680 Sep 4 06:02 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__022.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 597995520 Sep 4 07:00 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__023.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4388270080 Sep 4 07:53 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__024.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4392857600 Sep 4 10:44 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__025.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4615024640 Sep 4 12:01 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__026.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4615024640 Sep 4 16:41 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__027.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4497715200 Sep 4 18:06 SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__028.iso It is a bit more time-consuming to debug boots on SPARC, at least on sun4u. On x86 you would probably use VirtualBox or Xen/xVM or the like. On SPARC (at least on sun4u without the ability to run LDOMs), I have to burn actual media every time and to boot them on bare metal. But I rather do that, than to switch on a T1000 AirJet with 800 felt decibels in the same room ... So day after day runs away, sorry for the delay ...:) and btw: The integration of openXsun into sustaining/oi_151a/xnv was completed about a week ago. It is still on my disks. But as soon as the JumboLiveDVD finally comes over the current SMF errors, ai create a clean diff against the sustaining/oi_151a/xnv gate. It has grown into more than I expected. And ah, yes: I additionally need to find a solution for a missing symbol, that the 2007 released binary Xsun-drivers still were linked against. But as we have the kernel code (although not that of these closed drivers), this is easy. At least for us SPARC-users as a hack. Sorry, that I didn't and won't read your emails at this time. But otherwise we would probably not be here yet, as every minute counts. Regards, %martin On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Daniel Kjar <[email protected]> wrote: > I know somebody is working on it and said they might have something by the > end of August so It may be any day now we will have a functioning sparc > version of OI. > > > > On 09/ 4/12 03:42 AM, DavidHalko wrote: >> >> Hello All!!! >> >> I was just wondering how this is coming along. >> >> I would like to see OI actually running! (it would not work on my last >> couple of laptops, so I have been unable to contribute much outside of >> wikipedia & blog updates.) >> >> I may be able to test on: >> - V100 >> - V120 >> - V240 >> - Ultra60 >> >> Are we close to the point where OI will boot under SPARC? >> >> I have some commercial SPARC apps I want to try, as well. >> >> This could be the first step to getting commercial isv support on Illumos, >> if the rest of the userland did not change too much! >> >> Just need a boot cd iso! >> >> Thanks, Dave >> >>> From: ?????? ?????? (Martin Bochnig) <[email protected]> >>> Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:43 AM >>> Subject: Re: [discuss] SPARC and Illumos >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Brad Walker <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Recently there was some talk about SPARC compatibility. >>>> >>>> I would like to make sure that Illumos continues to have proper SPARC >>>> compatibility and would like to volunteer to make this happen. >>>> >>>> I'm a long time Sun guy. When I lived in Silicon Valley, I had a 4/280 >>>> with a Kennedy tape drive and a couple of SMD drives. I just couldn't >>>> keep dragging it around when I moved and so it is now been disposed >>>> of. Plus, the power bill was getting pretty large. >>>> >>>> Currently I have an Ultra 10, Sunblade 1000, Sunblade 2500, and a >>>> T2000. The Sunblade 2500 is my main home machine. When I need to use a >>>> PC, I run SunPCI3. So far this has served me well over the years. The >>>> T2000 is a new addition to the family and would like to retire the >>>> Sunblade 2500 as I migrate over to the T2000. >>>> >>>> So I guess you can say, that I've got a few machines that we can use. >>>> >>>> But, my question is: How do I get started with Illumos? >>>> >>>> Ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated. >>>> >>>> -brad w. >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> this project is still in its mysterious darkroom phase, which ends on >>> August 31st. >>>> >>>> From then on it enters its o_p_e_n(indiana) phase. >>> >>> And everybody is happily welcome to contribute. >>> >>> I canceled my holidays and work on it 12 to 18 hours every weekday and >>> weekend. >>> And I'm now sure, that the promised release date of August (for the >>> initial demo) can be met. >>> >>> At the current moment it would be contra-productive to work in a team, >>> as the chatting, explaining and talking would prevent us from going >>> ahead. >>> >>> Everybody has a different approach of working, but I hope you >>> understand that this is mine. >>> So please wait until August 31st, which is in 2 weeks, and therefore >>> in just a few felt "moments". >>> Time flies ....... >>> >>> And to keep you loyal SPARC fellows 2 weeks more patient, here is some >>> of the daily dog food that I enjoy to eat myself: >>> >>> Build started Thu Aug 16 21:26:25 2012 >>> Distribution name: OpenIndiana >>> Build Area dataset: magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0 >>> Build Area mount point: /magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0 >>> ==== im-pop: Image area creation >>> Initializing the IPS package image area: >>> /magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0/build_data/pkg_image >>> Setting preferred publisher: sparcoi >>> Origin repository: http://192.168.111.200:10000 >>> Verifying the contents of the IPS repository >>> Installing the designated packages >>> Uninstalling the designated packages >>> Setting post-install preferred publisher: sparcoi >>> Origin repository: http://192.168.111.200:10000 >>> Stopping at im-mod: Image area modifications >>> Build completed Thu Aug 16 23:11:27 2012 >>> Build is successful. >>> ... >>> and >>> >>> $ uname -a >>> SunOS 5.11 >>> oi_151a_Initial_SPARC_OpenIndiana__with_cheers_from__Martin_Bochnig >>> sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 >>> >>> So, again: Thanks for your offer to help. >>> Starting in two weeks a nice community project is available to you and us >>> all. >>> >>> regards, >>> %martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > -- > Dr. Daniel Kjar > Assistant Professor of Biology > Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Elmira College > 1 Park Place > Elmira, NY 14901 > 607-735-1826 > http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar > > "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies" > -E. 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