Hello! On Mon, 2023-07-03 at 05:28 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I don't think that's true. Since it has been reported that these machines > > run OpenBSD, it should be a matter of reading the OpenBSD kernel sources > > and add the missing bits and pieces for the SPARC64 VII(+) machines to the > > Linux kernel. > > Are we certain about NetBSD or OpenBSD? I did try to install NetBSD and > that failed also. I think I have my notes on that somewhere but it would > be easy enough for me to try again.
OpenBSD lists the M4000 as supported: > https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html While I didn't actually mention NetBSD here, since it's not the same as OpenBSD, I checked that as well now and it currently doesn't support Fujitsu CPUs, but that's work-in-progress, same applies to sun4v, i.e. T1-T5. For sun4v, I'm actually in contact with the developer doing the work. > https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/ > > I don't think that would be much as this it just some board-specific code > > and it wouldn't probably take an experienced kernel developer longer than > > a month if at all. > > That brings the costs down to the level of reasonable. Let me ponder > that a while. Find someone on the sparclinux Linux kernel mailing list willing to do the work and create a Bountysource campaign to sponsor the work. I assume, you can get it done for maybe $5000-$10.000. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
