Re: New test kernel - second attempt
On 9/21/25 11:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 11:18 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 9/21/25 01:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Tony,
On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 22:20 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
On another note, unsure if Oracle fixed any S7-2 related issues with the latest CBE yet.
I will download and attempt to install the latest CBE again. I did so several months ago.
They have not made any new CBE release since 11.4.81, so it's naturally not fixed.
I only cared about this because it was a good way to test the machine.
It boots and runs something. For one day. Not even that long. However
that single little SAS disk will be pulled out, labeled, stuck into an
envelope and then tossed into the back of a cardboard box somewhere.
Maybe a written word or two on the envelope that says "open in case of
busted S7-2". That is the end of that.
I honestly don't understand the hate.
Years of life wasted and many many people lost many many years.
Leave it at that .... moving onwards.
...
doesn't question the whole quality of Solaris. It's merely a clear indicator that
Oracle means it when they say the CBE releases are unsupported.
yup.
moving onwards.
I will try to reach out to some folks at Oracle though and see if we can get them
to publish a fix for Oracle 11.4.81 CBE to help users like you.
Good luck.
Sure. But please keep in mind that Linux on the SPARC S7 is still a bit
of work-in-progress. It should be better with Linux 6.18 which contains
the fixes for the memory corruption bugs [1] and even better when we got
the CPU detection code in order though [2].
yep ... I have that stuff open and I have done a review and am looking
forwards to getting this running.
Mostly I am too stubborn for thatand I want a top of the line modern
sparc machine running Linux because Adrian says it is possible and also
Tony claims he has it running. So lets do that. :)
My few tests on Tony's SPARC S7 were actually quite promising. It builds
Debian's kernel package which itself builds two fully fledged kernel
images (uni-processor and SMP) in just about 40 minutes which even beats
Debian's ppc64el [3] and s390x [4] buildds which build comparable kernel
packages.
Yes ... it has some grunt. I hope that the 128G mem machine I have can
also get the job done. Others will be following along with more SPARC
machines. I think that Greg Bowne has 256G mem in his M4000. Some of
the other folks may have fairly big boxes.
[1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/1
[2] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/4
[3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=ppc64el
[4] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=s390x
Excellent resources.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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