[oi-dev] OI on SPARC???

[Randy DuCharme]

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 <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 06/19/2012 04:28 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Sa?o Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> 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
>



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