On 04/14/2018 05:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I will have a look at sparc and debian shortly, if the install iso images are sorted :-)
The current image should work fine.
You just gave me a good reason to fire up a sparc server. I will step up to the plate on that and even grant you low level accesss to the system if you need, for testing. However you need a system with a separate systems processor to really test GRUB and the old Ultra5 ( Ultra 10 ) don't have that tech. A baseline machine would need ALOM or ILOM tech inside it and Oracle M-series equipment has fully separate XSCF systems boards. These allow the setup of hardware LDOMS and also grant access to control low level features of the machines.
We have done lots of testing of GRUB on new SPARC machines already. I would be more interested in testing GRUB on old machines, the older, the better. FWIW, we also have several machines with hypervisor support (sun4v).
Oh dear. Let me ponder that need. What is the most recent hardware you have been able to test with? Anything with a Fujitsu and Oracle badge on it?
The upstream code to support GRUB on SPARC comes directly from Oracle, so it has been tested with anything modern you can dream of. In fact, the push to replace SILO with GRUB comes from the Linux for SPARC people at Oracle. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
