[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 07/31/2012 11:13 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Hi Sašo,
> 
> 
> 
>> Oh, my curiosity certainly isn't worth changing your schedule for. I
>> don't have anything running yet. I have a couple of older Netra 240
>> machines (currently on S10) which I could use for some testing, but that
>> will take me some days to bootstrap, so no need to hurry with the bins
>> on your part. Whenever you are ready to make a workable release in your
>> normal schedule is fine with me.
> 
> 
> 
> ok, that's fine. Because I still use my old 2010 nv125 workspace and
> back then I already adapted text-install.
> Two years it rested unchanged on my Blade 2000. And now I finish this.
> As it is running, it gets merged with Illumos, which I also built,
> just about 3 weeks ago.
> That is: I check which SPARC-relevant legacy code was removed from
> Illumos, that we might want again. I was told that not much got
> removed, so it should be a no-brainer.
> 
> Hint to your Sol10 installation: In theory it is possible to run bins
> built on 5.11 on 5.10, but among other libs most importantly libc got
> at least one new symbol.
> In the past I experimented with mounting /lib and /usr from another
> 5.11 machine over a running 5.10's /lib and /usr Or for example to
> /lib0 and /usr0 (and then with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD).
>  and the results were interesting. But I don't recommend that.
> However, as I no longer have a single 5.10 installation, I cannot
> build Xsun on/for 5.10.
> 
> 
> So either you install SXCE_125 to one of your boxes and then I give
> you 5.11 test bins, or I rather would like to encourage you, until I
> have the entire OS finished.
> The problem during the last 2 years was, that I did lots of _other_
> things. As I see you fellows waiting, I push priorities. After all, I
> enjoy this stuff a lot, too.

I'd rather wait for a full release then. I was trying to test ZFS
booting off of a Netra 240 once, but hosed it (I guess the old OBP in
those machines didn't support that), so that one is a prime candidate
for some more forceful testing (it's been sitting in a storage room for
almost 2 years now).

--
Saso