Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:20:12 -0600 From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obscure platform testbed Message-ID: <108E0BBD-5550-40C3-8117-1C9A4895E9CD@dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <511C0B75.2050401@gmail.com> References: <FD28F24C-C19D-403B-8C7A-E0FEBC2D98AA@dragondata.com> <511C0B75.2050401@gmail.com>
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On Feb 13, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/12/2013 10:20 AM, Kevin Day wrote: >>=20 >> I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so if you know = of anyone who may be interested in this please forward to them. Right = now my company (your.org) does the free amd64/i386 VMs for FreeBSD = developers. >>=20 >> For an unrelated project, we're trying to build a testbed of many of = the more obscure *nix boxes, both running their native OS and a modern = OS. As an example, we've now got two SGI O2 R10K boxes, one running IRIX = and one running NetBSD. We're planning on doing the same for = Sparc64(Solaris and FreeBSD), VAX, ARM, etc. Where possible we'll have = NFS mounted home directories and NIS to have shared logins across the = "cluster". >=20 > I imagine your request would be more geared towards porters than = hackers. What you're creating would be of more use to someone = developing portable software. I wouldn't personally use it, but people = trying to develop for *nix but not just linux would need something. >=20 > As for non-intel boxes, you're probably better off with emulators that = support networking. Older processors are horribly power efficient by = todays standards, and a lot of the interesting systems have emulators = available. For this project, we really do need the real hardware. Long story, but = we need to demonstrate certain operations on legacy hardware itself. So, = while we're going through this hassle I thought I'd make it public if = there are any takers. I've had a few people interested in using it, and a couple people = offering up hardware. If anyone has interest, please contact me for more = off-list info! :) -- Kevin
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