Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:02:23 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Bill Sorenson <instructionset@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 support Message-ID: <20150805220223.GA18373@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <CACcTwYmS1c5uoO-WiJQDwgqYAevX7WZ7ZrP297hnOu7cNET3CA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACcTwYmS1c5uoO-WiJQDwgqYAevX7WZ7ZrP297hnOu7cNET3CA@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm glad to see I'm not alone in tier-2 interest :-) The v215/v245 type machines are becoming available for very cheap now. I have one of each. The v210/v240 type machines are mostly heading for scrap, however. Everything before that generation already is. FWIW, the v215 I have been running very hard on 10.2PRE as a poudriere machine. It is quite stable. The sun4v machines are becoming available a little less cheap. A couple of people have expressed an interest in trying to resurrect FreeBSD/sun4v but I don't think anything has happened yet. I'm still staring at this IBM 7029 I can't get to boot properly. Every once in a while I poke at it. I have a powermac G5 up and going on 10.2PRE but it doesn not seem stable. I do not know if this is hardware or software. The Xserve G5 is currently powered down. I intend to re-test the bits on it at some point. mcl
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