> On 5. Feb 2025, at 17:10, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> > wrote: > > > > On 05-02-2025 16:02, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: >> [..] >>>> - sparc port of OI (why was sparc removed anyway?) >>> >>> Because we do not have enough developers, we have no equipment to test >>> with, old SPARC systems are way too slow (20-30 minutes of illumos gate >>> build versus 4-5 or more hours). In short, we should be looking into the >>> future (get ARM64 going) and not into the past. ARM64 systems are very >>> affordable now, SPARC? why one should get rack server in their flat? It is >>> great if there are some people willing to play around with SPARC bits (I >>> myself do like SPARC very much), but … >> so OI is focused only on desktop? > > No, OI is the server part PLUS desktop. We use single image OI for > both our desktops and servers for various purposes. > >> Actually solaris based systems are >> as far as I know, the only systems that support generic windows acl >> from the zfs base via nfsv4 to the windows box. I do like to have an OI >> zfs fileserver for windows desktops that supports real acls. > > OI supports real ACLs because it builds on stock illumos. > >> And for the sparc systems, there is nothing that stable as sparc >> hardware. and obp on it is far more comfortable as this BIOS stuff. >> one doen't realy have a text console on off the shelf BIOS boxes >> Used sparc T2 boxes are damm cheap to get if one isn't just giving >> them out nothing > > We dumped our sparcs 25 years ago because already then they were a > factor of 6 too slow compared to the then recent DEC hardware (ES40), > which was superseeded by even faster Sun x86 machines (Blade 8000). > Cannot comprehend why anyone would stick to SPARC today except for > computer museum show cases … >
Actually T8’s are still rather powerful for machine with GA 2017;) but of course, PCIe 3.0 and DDR4 are what they are... rgds, toomas _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
