status of freebsd on ultrasparc?

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Royce Williams wrote:
| Mark Linimon wrote, on 6/16/2008 11:16 AM:
|> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:25:05PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote:
|>> - Volunteer list: Start a list of volunteers (and their associated
|>> hardware).  The wiki might be a good place for this, except it makes
|>> it harder for non-committer testers to self-organize.
|> I've now created
|> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sparc64/Volunteers for this.  I am
|> willing to add information for those who do not have write permissions
|> on the wiki.
|
| Excellent -- thanks, Mark!  Count me in.  I have none the commit bits,
| so if you could do the honors ...
|
| I personally have a U30.  Work has a number of retired E250s, E450s,
| and an E3500.  The work machines can be rigged up for remote console
| and power with some coordination.  I am interested in helping in
| whatever way that I can.  I am specifically interested in
| freebsd-update support for sparc64.
|
| I also have some sparc64 resources collected here:
|
| http://www.alaska.net/~royce/freebsd/sparc64/
|
|
| ... including a dmesg repository:
|
| http://www.alaska.net/~royce/freebsd/sparc64/dmesgs/

I've added you to the list, thanks!

|
|
| which currently has 148 dmesgs.  All: please consider contributing
| your dmesg, especially for 7 or 8. (Let me know how you want to be
| credited for the dmesg, and whether or not including your email
| address in the comment is OK).

You may want to add the following:

Blade100 on CURRENT http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/gahrsun.dmesg.boot.txt
E220R on 7.0RC1 http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/atari.dmesg.boot.txt
E220R on CURRENT http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/atari.8.dmesg.boot.txt

You can add my e-mail (gahr at FreeBSD.org) to the comments.

|
|> Also, http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sparc64 is now a general page
|> to help get things organized.  More ideas welcome.
|
| Mark, you may also want to note somewhere that Hiroki Sato sent me the
| following information on what he needs to get his E4500s back online,
| (which would be a huge bang for the buck, IIRC):
|
|> Anyway, suppose I could identify the failed ones, I would need the
|> replacement.  CPU board, modules, and memories are most
|> questionable, so they would likely be needed.  Currently all of the
|> boxes use 400MHz w/ 8MB module (PN:X2580A).  Also, PCI I/O board
|> (PN:X2632A) would help since we have very few options for Sbus SCSI
|> HBA.
|
| I also wrote Hiroki to ask if monetary donations could be earmarked
| for this purpose.  Not sure of the status of that.
|
| Royce
|


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Pietro Cerutti
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