Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:33:42 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of freebsd on ultrasparc? Message-ID: <48570666.80503@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48570234.3000704@alaska.net> References: <6e5cf6a70806051341x95eb814j6222c04dbfd7fb2d@mail.gmail.com> <20080609211208.GA66541@alchemy.franken.de> <20080609231419.F13655@ury.york.ac.uk> <484DBB64.5050607@FreeBSD.org> <20080609234022.GA18959@soaustin.net> <484DD7F1.9000003@alaska.net> <20080616191629.GA590@soaustin.net> <48570234.3000704@alaska.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Royce Williams wrote: | Mark Linimon wrote, on 6/16/2008 11:16 AM: |> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:25:05PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote: |>> - Volunteer list: Start a list of volunteers (and their associated |>> hardware). The wiki might be a good place for this, except it makes |>> it harder for non-committer testers to self-organize. |> I've now created |> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sparc64/Volunteers for this. I am |> willing to add information for those who do not have write permissions |> on the wiki. | | Excellent -- thanks, Mark! Count me in. I have none the commit bits, | so if you could do the honors ... | | I personally have a U30. Work has a number of retired E250s, E450s, | and an E3500. The work machines can be rigged up for remote console | and power with some coordination. I am interested in helping in | whatever way that I can. I am specifically interested in | freebsd-update support for sparc64. | | I also have some sparc64 resources collected here: | | http://www.alaska.net/~royce/freebsd/sparc64/ | | | ... including a dmesg repository: | | http://www.alaska.net/~royce/freebsd/sparc64/dmesgs/ I've added you to the list, thanks! | | | which currently has 148 dmesgs. All: please consider contributing | your dmesg, especially for 7 or 8. (Let me know how you want to be | credited for the dmesg, and whether or not including your email | address in the comment is OK). You may want to add the following: Blade100 on CURRENT http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/gahrsun.dmesg.boot.txt E220R on 7.0RC1 http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/atari.dmesg.boot.txt E220R on CURRENT http://gahr.ch/gahrnet/atari.8.dmesg.boot.txt You can add my e-mail (gahr@FreeBSD.org) to the comments. | |> Also, http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sparc64 is now a general page |> to help get things organized. More ideas welcome. | | Mark, you may also want to note somewhere that Hiroki Sato sent me the | following information on what he needs to get his E4500s back online, | (which would be a huge bang for the buck, IIRC): | |> Anyway, suppose I could identify the failed ones, I would need the |> replacement. CPU board, modules, and memories are most |> questionable, so they would likely be needed. Currently all of the |> boxes use 400MHz w/ 8MB module (PN:X2580A). Also, PCI I/O board |> (PN:X2632A) would help since we have very few options for Sbus SCSI |> HBA. | | I also wrote Hiroki to ask if monetary donations could be earmarked | for this purpose. Not sure of the status of that. | | Royce | - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhXBmUACgkQwMJqmJVx9469ngCeKB98675e0Z44sXuMzcgWcovt km4An2YnfAi2vzHsqx4KeDWI+z1+TOqM =UXjq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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