Re: New test kernel - second attempt
Hello,
On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 01:24 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Not UltraSparc II but UltraSparc II (not IIe, IIi) is it still of
> interest or are these subrevision not of interest?
Yes, absolutely.
> Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz), No Keyboard
>
> I didn't even remember I bought as second CPU board for that... and then
> essentially never used it much! Time to dust it up! It was already
> de-solarized with the CPU upgrade and is running an old NetBSD version.
> I'll upgrade it first.
And you should report back to the NetBSD people if you run into any problems
after the upgrade.
> I Indeed have an original Ultra 1! It has a non-booting Solaris 7 -
> perhaps one of the two disk is busted. It will get Linux!
> Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.35, 576 MB memory installed, Serial #8906394.
>
> More interesting? Both?
Yes, please. But please be aware that both the UltraSPARC I and II could
have problems unless you have a kernel with the copy_{to,from}_user fixes [1].
> Off-topic: Ultra2 has invalid NVRAMs... I just set the date and it
> worked, MAC address not lost yet.
> In the past, I was able to source the chips and replace them, or I went
> the hard route to dissect them and attach a new battery to them. How is
> the situation now? can those chips still be sourced "new" at a decent
> price or are they NOS with dead batteries? super-expensive? alternatives?
> I also got once Dallas chips, they were not working, not really
> incompatible.
There are modern alternatives to replace these, see [2].
Adrian
> [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/1
> [2] https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchwrks/gw-12887-1-dallas-ds12887-rtc-replacement-module/
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