On 6/7/23 03:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 03:10 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Sadly the machine isa bit of a brick. Maybe NetBSD works? No idea.
However a much older and smaller UltraSPARC IIi Netra seems to be
working just perfect. I am doing the install now, live, streaming on
YouTube.
To say the least it is a slow and boring stream :)
But it works !
That's good to hear. You should run some CPU-intensive code on the machine
once it's installed to see how reliable the current kernel is. Also, try
kernel 6.3 from experimental.
Adrian
One of the first things I plan on doing is a bootstrap of GCC 13.x
and then also binutils ( maybe? maybe not? ) and of course a kernel.
That will keep the machine thrashing for at least a week. With Gentoo I
saw an update time of the machine take well over 190 hours. Awesome
throughput with plenty of swap needed.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
Four decades in production systems.
