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.
I want to thank you for the incredible support and work that you do.
It seems clear to me that testing anything on old Sun hardware is
likely a waste of time. That hardware is for a museum or perhaps
just a recycle pile. Experiments done on such hardware is a waste
of time regardless if it works or not.
I think a modern server such a the ORACLE S7 is a better direction
wherein the work done has future value. Even the Fujitsu M4000 type
machines are getting very long in the tooth.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken