From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Calaby Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:43:11 +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 Hi, On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:42 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Meelis Roos > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:21:16 +0300 (EEST) > >> I see a lot of new development activity on sparclinux, that is great. >> >> I also see different views on supporting older hardware on current >> kernels, and testing on old ultrasparcs seens to be one of the issues. >> >> 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). > > Thank you for offering this, I hope some developers take advantage of > this opportunity. I'm hoping that Oracle comes back and says "we have that already, we just don't fire up the old hardware that much". Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/