Robert Jones asks on Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:08:40 +0100
about the status of
>> SPARC project Dilios
I have VMs running various versions of DilOS; the most recent is
version 2.0.9 (stretch/sid), and as of today, the last updates in /bin
are dated 2020.05.06. My VMs are running on x86_64, not SPARC,
Dear All,
The sparc protect seems to have been quiet for a while does anyone know
what the latest news is ?
Regards
Robert Jones
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Oracle has released documentation detailing new sparc v9 isa extensions used in
the latest processors.
Other than that, the processors are binary compatible, any new hardware will
have OpenBoot fcode drivers.
There may be some OS drivers missing, but the system should at least boot and
mostly
Am 13.09.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Krzysztof Grzempa :
> Im watching this disscusion, and you guys interested me into OpenSXCE
> Ilumos distro. I might have get V440 server and i was looking for good
> illumos distro to run. I read some about this distro, and instead of solid
> knowledge, i started t
Im watching this disscusion, and you guys interested me into OpenSXCE
Ilumos distro. I might have get V440 server and i was looking for good
illumos distro to run. I read some about this distro, and instead of solid
knowledge, i started to worry about some Putin's backdoors included...
I dont like
I agree with Nikola and I'd also like to add:
Martin's circumstances and success is inexorably linked to the success of
Illumos and OI, commercial projects that build upon successful free projects
are also often successful. Last I checked the terms and conditions, OpenSXCE
is a commercial proj
I currently have a Blade 2500 Red in storage right now - once I get a job
again, I hope to get it up and running, and I plan on trying out OpenSXCE.
I've let Martin know, and he said he'll be happy to have me help out - the
only thing that slightly discouraged me was the XVR-1200 framebuffer that
u
On 09/ 6/14 09:59 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
So, there is no special interest in SPARC or desktop left. My
impression is that people interested in it are getting fewer and fewer.
There IS interest in SPARC! OpenSXCE and Openindiana had releases and
some people interested on working on OI on SPA
On 09/ 6/14 08:03 PM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) wrote:
He used to have a mailing list that someone in the Netherlands set up for him,
but it had very little traffic, and seems to have disappeared in recent months.
Hm, this doesn't seems right. If someone started hosting mailing list
for him, at
By the way, as a way to support Martin's work and get some well-preserved and
functional desktop-ready SPARC gear, people are encouraged to take a look at
his blog since he recently began setting up auctions to sell off the machines
used to develop and test OpenSXCE since their intricacies ar
uot;
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>> Today's Topics:
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>> 1. Re: Sparc (Dormition Skete (Hotmail))
>> 2. Re: Sparc (Andreas Wacknitz)
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> 2. Re: Sparc (Andreas Wacknitz)
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> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:03:58 -0600
> From: "Dormition Skete (Hotmail)"
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sparc
Am 06.09.2014 um 20:03 schrieb Dormition Skete (Hotmail)
:
> Ok, since no one else wants to bite, I guess I will.
>
> I haven’t spoken with Martin or spent any significant time watching his
> distro for a while now, so this information may not be entirely up to date;
> but it’s highly unlik
Ok, since no one else wants to bite, I guess I will.
I haven’t spoken with Martin or spent any significant time watching his distro
for a while now, so this information may not be entirely up to date; but it’s
highly unlikely that things have changed significantly in recent months.
A couple o
rative effort?
Regards,
Peter.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
> - Original message -
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:36:39 +1000
> > From: Peter Firmst
6. Re: Comstar Fibre Channel Target (Gonzalo Seoane)
> 7. Re: Comstar Fibre Channel Target (Mark)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:36:39 +1000
> From: Peter Firmstone
> To: openindia
On 09/ 4/14 10:54 PM, Peter wrote:
Thanks Alexander,
I noticed that Xorg used by Solaris 11 is still freely available.
With regard to PC graphics card options, people who use apple often flash their
cards to add code that calls the PC Bios code, Open Firmware and coreboot have
been emulating
Thanks Alexander,
I noticed that Xorg used by Solaris 11 is still freely available.
With regard to PC graphics card options, people who use apple often flash their
cards to add code that calls the PC Bios code, Open Firmware and coreboot have
been emulating pc bios also, so I'm investigating w
Martin botchnig has his own open sxce version for SPARC.
El 04/09/2014 09:37, "Peter Firmstone" escribió:
> Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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I think Martin Bochnig is doing something with opensxce (
http://opensxce.org/)
good luck!
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
Regards,
Peter
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On 1/23/14, 10:09 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
>>> I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
>>> someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
>>> someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sp
> On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
> > someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
> > someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sparc port. Any
> > volunteers?
>
> We've had t
QEMU, he understood
nothing of the code. But then took my patches and submitted them
upstream
UNDER HIS NAME!!!
[OpenIndiana-discuss] sparc support Ben Taylor
http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2014-January/thread.html#14853
[OpenIndiana-discuss] sparc support
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Hi,
#oi-dev pointed me at this thread and I feel obligated to speak up
now. I have a working build of most of 151a8 for SPARC that I've built
on an old Fire V210 in our machine room, and if you can offer me
access to better hardware, I
Hi,
#oi-dev pointed me at this thread and I feel obligated to speak up
now. I have a working build of most of 151a8 for SPARC that I've built
on an old Fire V210 in our machine room, and if you can offer me
access to better hardware, I'd be happy to use it to build a more
complete version. I'm als
That's sad! :-(
Von: Saso Kiselkov [skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014 12:56
An: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sparc support
On 1/23/14, 11:51 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>>
On 1/23/14, 11:51 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> Sure, why not. What do you propose needs to be done to facilitate a) and b)?
>
> Hmmm... I thought the original post was by Ben, being willing to offer a
> stack of recommissioned Sparc hardware under the condition that it would be
> actively
>Sure, why not. What do you propose needs to be done to facilitate a) and b)?
Hmmm... I thought the original post was by Ben, being willing to offer a stack
of recommissioned Sparc hardware under the condition that it would be actively
used for the Sparc port. So, if you would offer Martin onlin
On 1/23/14, 11:40 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> That might be true, but if he is one of the (at least to my knowledge) very
> few working on SPARC Solaris descendants, wouldn't he still a) deserve
> support and b) indirectly help OI/Sparc in the long run?
Sure, why not. What do you propose n
elkov...@gmail.com]
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On 1/23/14, 5:29 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> What about Martin and his OpenSXCE efforts? could he maybe make use of it?
Martin's
On 1/23/14, 5:29 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> What about Martin and his OpenSXCE efforts? could he maybe make use of it?
Martin's decided, for ideological reasons as far as I can tell, to
maintain his own OS/Net consolidation.
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> Am 23.01.2014 um 02:45 schrieb "Saso Kiselkov" :
>
>
What about Martin and his OpenSXCE efforts? could he maybe make use of it?
Cheers
Stefan
Am 23.01.2014 um 02:45 schrieb "Saso Kiselkov" :
> On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
>> I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
>> someone willing to host the hardware
On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
> someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
> someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sparc port. Any
> volunteers?
We've had this discussion
I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sparc port. Any
volunteers?
Ben
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Hi Martin,
I have 4 sparc processors TIIIi and some memory laying here, waiting for
someone.
I'd like do donate them to you if you like. Just to appreciate your work.
Are you interested?
Kind regards,
The out-side
Op 27 sep. 2012 om 09:59 heeft Martin Bochnig het volgende
geschreven:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Hi Martin!
>
>
>> As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from
>> either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I
>> overlook sth?)
>
> I think this was more a communications problem. For example,
Hi Martin!
> As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from
> either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I
> overlook sth?)
I think this was more a communications problem. For example, it was not
clear to me that you were *waiting* for someone to give
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Hi Martin!
>
>
> These screens look very nice indeed!! Looking forward to trying out
> your distribution on my E4500. :-)
>
> However, I prefer quality. So if we need to wait a few days more until
> everything is finished, that is fine w
Hi Martin!
These screens look very nice indeed!! Looking forward to trying out
your distribution on my E4500. :-)
However, I prefer quality. So if we need to wait a few days more until
everything is finished, that is fine with me.
Best regards -- Volker
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2012-09-10 18:33, Gary Gendel wrote:
I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a
bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10
using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a
separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which
I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a
bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10
using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a
separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which I actually use to
build and test p
I wonder how much it would cost to host the OpenIndiana ISOs on Amazon S3...
*wonders about possibly hosting as an additional mirror* ;)
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" ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured,
the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
irrevocably.'
I have a Sun Blade 2500 (red, XVR-1200 graphics) available for testing, and
I may be able to convince one of my colleagues to fire up a Sun Fire V240
that I gave him to try with this as well, if you like, Martin. There is
still plenty of sun4u hardware out there that would love to test OI on. :)
O
Sašo: Thank you.
Hosting help will be very good in every case.
I don't know if you are subscribed to the Illumos devel list.
Garrett proposed, that OpenIndiana should no longer be Illumos'
reference distro.
That's what I meant. I finally found some appetite on Indiana, and now
it gets dropped?
I ju
Great work, great intentions! Thank you!
On 10.09.2012 18:14, Martin Bochnig wrote:
p.s. I will not allow, that OI dies!
If nobody else wants to keep it alive, I will ensure ...
We here will keep OI alive, okay? ;-)
Cheers to all OI users,
Martin
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On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> And creating a new 10GB solaris and gzip-9 compress it to 3GB takes 6
> hours (and I consider this quick).
One more thing: anything above gzip -6 is placebo. Please see
https://www.illumos.org/attachments/726/lz4_compression_bench.ods for a
quick re
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Martin Bochnig wrote:
Dear SPARC fellows,
I apologize the repeated delays.
If you fix a, b and c you forget that this breaks d.
SMF complicated life (instead of making it easier).
And creating a new 10GB solaris and gzip-9 compress it to 3GB takes 6
hours (and I conside
On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> If you want all these bugs, rather that sill wait, pls. let me know.
> Then I can offer the current instable alpha version via dyndns.
>
> <>
> <>
> <>
>
>
>
> p.s. I will not allow, that OI dies!
> If nobody else wants to keep it alive, I will en
We had a number of responses to a query for SPARC resources in support
of illumos and OI. I've provided a basic wiki page with four buckets,
providing a continuum of access, from shipping kit to a hosting
arrangement to running tests of specific changes and reporting back on
any bugs. If you have S
Does OI support SPARC and/or will it ever/always?
-brian
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On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:06:56PM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote:
>
> SPARC dev for OI has only recently begun by way of a text only
> install first. No ISOs have been released at this this time,
> however.
That's why I'm offering to help with SPARC.
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Gary Driggs wrote:
SPARC dev for OI has only recently begun by way of a text only install first.
No ISOs have been released at this this time, however.
I would be keen to test a SPARC version of OI if & when it becomes
available for testing; text installs via serial port
SPARC dev for OI has only recently begun by way of a text only install first.
No ISOs have been released at this this time, however.
-Gary
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:23:13PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:36:09PM -, Deano wrote:
> >
> > If you have SPARC, are interested in OI and have a little bit of time to
> > help iron out issues then that would be great.
>
> I just acquired a V240 and installed Solaris
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:36:09PM -, Deano wrote:
>
> If you have SPARC, are interested in OI and have a little bit of time to
> help iron out issues then that would be great.
I just acquired a V240 and installed Solaris 11 Express on it as a
test. It works nicely. How can I help with OI d
From: Deano
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 February, 2011 14:36:09
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An in progress SPARC build is available for people to try out and find issue
with, as long as they don't mind helping out with so
eople with machines who
can help, so it would be greatly appreciated.
HTH,
Deano
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Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC
IS OI available for
IS OI available for SPARC yet?
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