Hello Duncan,
I don't know your exact use case of OpenBSD on this Sun machine type.
As mentioned, our case is for a server "Services" platform.
OpenBSD 7.3 boots normally on our Sparc machines:
SC Alert: Host System has Reset
SC Override: Force Diagnostics
Executing Power On Self Test
0>
0>@(#)Sun Fire[TM] V215/V245 POST 4.30.4 2009/08/19 07:35
/export/delivery/delivery/4.30/4.30.4/post4.30.4-micro/Fiesta/seattle/integrated
(root)
0>Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
0>OBP->POST Call with %o0=00000800.01014000.
0>Diag level set to MAX.
0>Verbosity level set to NORMAL.
... ... ...
Rebooting with command: boot disk:a sr0a/bsd
Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@0,0:a File and
args: sr0a/bsd
OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 2.1
>> OpenBSD BOOT 1.24
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
sr0*
Booting sr0a:/bsd
10097936@0x1000000+2800@0x19a1510+148308@0x1c00000+4045996@0x1c24354
symbols @ 0xfe994400 491029+165+665352+461454 start=0x1000000
[ using 1619032 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
console is /ebus@1f,464000/serial@2,80
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2023 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1716: Sat Mar 25 14:02:42 MDT 2023
dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC.MP<mailto:dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC.MP>
... ... ...
mainbus0 at root: Sun Fire V245
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi (rev 3.4) @ 1504 MHz
cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (64
b/l)
cpu1 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi (rev 3.4) @ 1504 MHz
cpu1: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (64
b/l)
"memory-controller" at mainbus0 not configured
... ... ...
fw_update: added none; updated none; kept none
starting local daemons: cron.
Wed Aug 30 10:37:55 CEST 2023
OpenBSD/sparc64 (sun11.assgroup.de) (console)
login:
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Howdy Daniel?
I'm running OBSD7.1 on a Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz)
running on (max) 32 gig CF cards, and I'm wondering if you, or anyone
else out there is running 7.3 on a similar machine. Just wondering if
it's possible/reasonable or mebbe should think of freezing on 7.1?
RSVP, thanks.
Dhu
On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:11:48 +0000
Daniel Plominski <daniel.plomin...@a2s.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> we still have several Sparc64 machines (Sun Fire v210 / 240 / 245) in use.
>
> FreeBSD 12.4 is end of life from 31 Dec 2023. It is no longer supported in
> FreeBSD 13.0 and later.
> Due to lack of maintainer support for the ports over the last years it was
> already difficult or impossible to build up-to-date software from the ports
> under Sparc64 (buggy GMP / GCC 9).
>
> In our evaluation phase for an alternative Platform:
>
> - Solaris 10 with https://unixpackages.com/
> - Openindiana (Beta for Sparc)
> - Debian 7 (for Sparc) ... too old
>
> We think that OpenBSD with its current release and up to date software
> packages is the best option for us, even if we will miss ZFS sorely :/
>
> What steps need to be followed for OpenBSD to fully boot "rootfs" from a
> SoftRAID?
>
> Our manual adjustments in the shell of the bsd.rd installer have only ever
> worked with creating a separate root partition "/" as 4.2BSD
> and then using bioctl to create a RAID partition for "/tmp" + "/var" + "/usr"
> + "/home".
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Gr??en
>
> Daniel Plominski
> Leitung | IT
>
> Telefon +49 9265 808-151 | Mobil 0151-58026316 |
> daniel.plomin...@a2s.com<mailto:daniel.plomin...@a2s.com>
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