Sparc64 support
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Wed Aug 5 22:02:30 UTC 2015
I'm glad to see I'm not alone in tier-2 interest :-)
The v215/v245 type machines are becoming available for very cheap now.
I have one of each. The v210/v240 type machines are mostly heading
for scrap, however. Everything before that generation already is.
FWIW, the v215 I have been running very hard on 10.2PRE as a poudriere
machine. It is quite stable.
The sun4v machines are becoming available a little less cheap. A couple
of people have expressed an interest in trying to resurrect FreeBSD/sun4v
but I don't think anything has happened yet.
I'm still staring at this IBM 7029 I can't get to boot properly. Every
once in a while I poke at it.
I have a powermac G5 up and going on 10.2PRE but it doesn not seem
stable. I do not know if this is hardware or software. The Xserve G5
is currently powered down. I intend to re-test the bits on it at some
point.
mcl
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