Hi All,
Since I originally reported the issue with the previous CBE on the SPARC
S7‑2—and provided a temporary workaround—I wanted to follow up. During a
recent OS installation, I confirmed that the latest Solaris CBE resolves
the SATA hard‑drive problem on the S7‑2. Under the older CBE, a
ZFS‑related error prevented the system from booting when a SATA drive
was present, leaving SAS as the only viable option.
Thanks again for resolving this issue.
Regards
Tony Rodriguez
On 3/7/26 4:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 3/7/26 01:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Alan,
first of all, thanks a lot for providing another CBE release within
such a short
interval after the last one! I have already updated Debian's SPARC
servers without
any issues.
Being able to run a recent version of Solaris puts peace to the mind
as we don't
have to worry about potential unfixed CVEs. Plus, there are users who
have reported
issues with the previous CBE release on their SPARC S7, so I hope
that issue will now
be fixed as well.
So, huge thanks to you and your colleagues for making this possible!
You're welcome.
I think that date was also pushed into the future already, wasn't it?
I think the
original plan foresaw the end of the service life in 2034, didn't it?
Yes, it was pushed out from 2034 to 2037 by request of customers who
plan their
IT infrastructure many years into the future. Whether it gets
extended again
is still TBD. (And to be pedantically correct, the original plan for
Solaris 11
had a support life ending in 2024, which was then extended to 2034
when it was
decided to turn our Solaris 12 work-in-progress into an 11.4 release
and stay on
Solaris 11 for the long term.)
Btw, there are some open-source projects involving SPARC that Oracle
previously worked
on but that never got upstreamed. For example, there is an incomplete
port of libunwind
to SPARC [1] that I extracted from the Oracle Linux 6 sources. I
would love to get these
upstreamed and have been trying to reach out to Oracle engineers to
make this happen. If
you have the possibility to talk to some people, that would be great.
Unfortunately, the Linux engineers no longer work on SPARC ports, and
the Solaris engineers mainly work on things we need for Solaris, so
things like
that may fall through the cracks.
-alan-
