Hi Sam,
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all sparc lovers/users.
>
> We all know that is is a long time ago that a sun4m or sun4d machine was produced,
> and I wonder if there are anyone using these today.
> The questions pops up as there are still stuff to do before the sparc32 port
> is in good shape.
>
> So the question to you guys...
> Shall we keep support for sun4d and sun4m?
> If yes then why?
I have three sun4m boxen, all of which are unbootable for various
reasons (no hdd being the most common issue).
The last time I attempted to get "modern" Linux booting on them, the
major issue I ran into was the lack of modern distro support for
sparc32. - Gentoo was the only viable option (They last supported it
in 2006, however the last time I checked, that version was upgradable,
pre-emerge world, to the latest version). The last HDD set I had died
before I could start actually building it, so I've not actually seen
if the Linux kernel actually works properly on that hardware anymore.
(All three boxen need narrow-SCSI HDDs. I no-longer have any which I
know work. Netboot is an option, but I've not explored it enough yet.)
Sadly, getting them running again has been stuck on the bottom of my
TODO list due to a lot of other factors. (Lack of time being the main
one.)
If it's dropped, I won't mourn it's loss, however my vote will always
be to let it bitrot a bit more before we kill it.
IIRC, CPU-wise, sun4{m,d} is not _that_ much different from LEON,
however all the hardware stuff is, of course, significantly different.
If that's not holding LEON back....
Thanks,
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