From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chase rayfield Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:32:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Access to older 64-bit sparcs for developers Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org "and testing on old ultrasparcs seems to be one of the issues." Testing on old hardware is important... because there are differences and stuff breaks. I still haven't figured out how to get an X server going on my Ultra45 for instance... perhaps fbdev but that is decidedly bleh. It's happily running Gentoo and my Homepage etc in the meantime... I can provide access to just about any 32bit hardware except TurboSparc (working on that ;-) ), an Ultra 1E, 10, U45 and T2000, for anyone wanting to dork around with that as well.... on a 100/10 link. I don't have a fancy setup to power cycle them at the moment though I can easily wire up serial consoles. I could stick a Radeon RX560 in the U45 if someone wants to try getting mesa + X11 acceleration working on Sparc64 on that specific hardware at least. Chase On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 04:21:16PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: >> I have most of my sparclinux testbed in DMZ-s and I can make them >> available to any developers who want it, along with root access and >> built in management (if any). > > FWIW, we have more modern hardware available to external developers in > Debian. There is one SPARC-T5 running Debian unstable (sparc64) inside > an LDOM and a Sun Fire T2000 that are available. > > I have already provided access to QEMU upstream, glibc upstream, Free > Pascal upstream and others that I forgot. The FPC people, for example, > already made great progress on adding sparc64 support to their > compiler ;). > > So, if anyone needs faster sparc64 hardware running a current version > of Linux for testing, please let me know. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html