On 6/5/23 06:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello! I have updated the UltraSPARC IIIi to kernel 6.3 from experimental and it has been running very stable for almost a week now despite the server being run as a CI machine for the Free Pascal Compiler. So, it seems the Linux kernel is finally usable on older SPARC systems again. I'm curious to hear if anyone can confirm this on their own machines.
I shall fire up a machine and give this a test. I think that I had serious problems in the past with two different Netra class servers. In fact, I need to check if the processors are UltraSPARC II or IIi or anything close to a III or IIIi. I do have a Fujitsu SPARC64 server but that thing seems to be unable to boot/run anything other than Solaris 10 or perhaps 11.3. I should give it a test with the latest updated install images you have built. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC Four decades in production systems.