On 8/24/25 17:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello, since there has been a lot of recent activity around the Linux kernel on SPARC and there are also a lot of issues to be dealt with and unmerged patches, I have decided to summarize the current state of the Linux kernel on SPARC to bring anyone interested up to date.
Thank you very much for this detailed update. I have had a SPARC
server ( or two or seven ) running somewhere but the problems are, how
may I say it? The problems are always numerous. It is just a real pain
to keep one of those running much of anything anymore. Your detailed
update gives me the notion that a decently fast machine may exist that
will run Linux in a reasonable fashion. Maybe. This could just be yet
another total waste of time and money. That is the nature of Linux on
SPARC these days.
Having said all of that I wonder if anyone has run Linux on the more
recently built ORACLE S7-2 type servers? I think the people at Oracle
may have released a variant of ORACLE Linux ( read that as Red Hat ) for
SPARC just for this machine. However the code changes required for that
to work may be locked away on Larry's island. Who knows.
So has anyone managed to get Linux running on the S7-2 type unit?
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken