Hi Dennis, On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 00:22 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 8/24/25 17:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > since there has been a lot of recent activity around the Linux kernel on > > SPARC > > and there are also a lot of issues to be dealt with and unmerged patches, I > > have > > decided to summarize the current state of the Linux kernel on SPARC to bring > > anyone interested up to date. > > > > I want to thank you for the incredible support and work that you do.
You're welcome. > It seems clear to me that testing anything on old Sun hardware is > likely a waste of time. That hardware is for a museum or perhaps > just a recycle pile. Experiments done on such hardware is a waste > of time regardless if it works or not. Well, you should at least give me the time to response before you rage-quit ;-). I have replied to your previous mail and I think the problem is that you just misconfigured SILO and also made some wrong assumptions on how it works. > I think a modern server such a the ORACLE S7 is a better direction > wherein the work done has future value. Even the Fujitsu M4000 type > machines are getting very long in the tooth. People have successfully verified the patched kernel on UltraSPARC II machines, so I think it should work on your machine as well. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
