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GenTimJS Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: Any gentoo folks taken Sun up on the 60day eval T2000? |
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I'm planning on taking Sun up on the T2000 60day eval .. I'd like to try and make gentoo go on it .. has anyone else tried this?
Thoughts about potential pitfalls? _________________ -Tim Smith |
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: |
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Nope, we haven't. Work is still being done to support the UltraSPARC T1 (AKA Niagra) CPU in the Linux kernel. |
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GenTimJS Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: |
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I'm curious if running a very generic sparc kernel would at least boot?
Thoughts? _________________ -Tim Smith |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Niagara is a completely new architecture, called SUN4V, so no.
David Miller (sparc kernel maintainer) is working on it, you can check his blog at http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/ _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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kyphros n00b
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 10
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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I just about cried when I saw that boot log with 32 procs. And I thought my workstation with 4 procs was nice. I'd love to get my hands on one of those |
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tiketti n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Finland
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Partitial quote from kerneltrap.org, announcement from Linus to lkml
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6435
Linux: 2.6.17-rc1
"The most notable change here might be the merged support for Sun's Niagara architecture" _________________ Gentoo on x86, sparc, alpha, amd64, embedded |
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krugger n00b
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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As of a couple of days ago i've managed to conjure an experimental livecd that works on the T2000 @ http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/
You'll need to unmask vanilla-sources-2.6.17-rc2+ to get one rolling, all the other stuff is currently stable (like >=silo-1.4.11-r1). The livecd has /proc/config.gz support so you don't have to start from scratch.
Thanks go to pkessler & Pyretic on #gentoo-sparc for testing.
http://www.zolder.org/boot.txt for Pyretic's livecd boot. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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astinus Retired Dev
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 27 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Newly arrived server sitting under my desk, only problems unresolved are kernel related. I'll drop by #gentoo-sparc later and see if all you kind folks can't help me resolve them so I can get on with deploying this beastie. |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/bender-bootlog.txt
Bootlog from the T2000 Sun kindly donated Gentoo.
I'm still trying to find out how to fill the 32G ram this beast has (it's the 8-core 1.2ghz kind).
Astinus: you'll need the latest experimental livecd to roll it sweetly. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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Ph0eniX Guru
Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 502 Location: New York, U.S.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: |
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Yes, too bad it's time to return it now. I didn't get to play with it as much as I would have liked to. |
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mspiegle Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 127
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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gust4voz wrote: | As of a couple of days ago i've managed to conjure an experimental livecd that works on the T2000 @ http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/
You'll need to unmask vanilla-sources-2.6.17-rc2+ to get one rolling, all the other stuff is currently stable (like >=silo-1.4.11-r1). The livecd has /proc/config.gz support so you don't have to start from scratch.
Thanks go to pkessler & Pyretic on #gentoo-sparc for testing.
http://www.zolder.org/boot.txt for Pyretic's livecd boot. |
You are THE MAN. I got this thing booted on my first try. NO DRAMA. Perfect install with no errors. |
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