Hi Jeremy, On Sat, 2025-05-31 at 22:16 -0400, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > If I had a T5240 Server, 2x Ultra Sparc T2 Plus CPU, 32GB RAM > available and could give remote access to sparc devs would this > be useful to anyone here? > > If not, what specs would be useful?
Faster is always better, of course. If you have the possibilities, I would recommend obtaining a SPARC T4 or newer as this server is still supported by the latest version of Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE [1]. Then install Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE in the primary domain and install Debian Linux or Gentoo Linux inside a logical domain (LDOM) [2]. Once the LDOM is installed, provide root access for it to the GCC Compile Farm maintainers [3] so they can configure the LDOM to become part of their machine park available to the open source community. This would really be helpful to support SPARC open-source development. You can also, of course, install Debian or Gentoo bare-metal on your T5240 and let the GCC Compile Farm maintainers configure your machine. Adrian > [1] https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Creating_an_LDOM_to_install_Debian_in > [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
