[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Jacob Ritorto]

I'm highly motivated to help test for sparc ( sb100, sb2000, ultra5,2,1)
and I do have one shitty pc (HP Z400) I can add to the fray.  Please let me
know how I can be useful.



On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:30 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> I'm extremely concerned about the situation I've encountered.
>
> I'm trying to bring up OI on Oracle Solaris 11 certified hardware.
> 2020.10 crashes booting the Desktop Live Image.  The 2021.04_rc1 Live Image
> works fine, but the installed image crashes on reboot.
>
> This is disastrous for the future of OI.  If it is not fixed, OI is dead.
> I feel confident that I can determine the source of my problem and fix it.
> However, I only have a few hardware platforms to test releases on.  Fixing
> my problem doesn't make OI reliable on other systems. If we do not achieve
> reliable operation on many platforms it's "game over".
>
> We need to have multiple people test a release candidate on as many pieces
> of hardware as possible.  We can't do everything, but we can do better.
> Release decisions need to be based on a sign off from multiple people
> testing a release candidate, not on a schedule.
>
> Reg
>
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