On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 06:21:04PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Is anyone having any sun4c boxes alive and running Linux? > > I have a nice box myself that does not boot - I do not know why. > But we are talking abot slow and old stuff here. > > Is it time to drop support for sun4c - or is anyone still > having an interest keeping that platform alive? > > Looking into recent history of the kernel only one person > (Mark - copied) seems to have contributed > solely for the purpose of getting a sun4c box working. > > > Sunstuff has a list of boxes based on sun4c here: > http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun4/sun4c/ > > SPARCstation 1, SLC, IPC, 1+, 2, ELC, IPX > SPARCengine 1 To summarize this thread... There are unsuprisingly some that for sentimental reasons would like to keep sun4c support in-kernel. But sun4c is outdated and if anyone want to run something on a sun4c box the *BSD variants has better performance. Also considering that sun4c support has been broken for some time and there is a few changes pending where sun4c does not make things simpler we will drop sun4c support. I already took a quick look at it and in the process I think I uncovered a bug in NMI handling for sun4m in UP mode. We would call the sun4c nmi trap despite being a sun4m box - this would not go well. When I have something tested I will forward my patches. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
