From: Julian Calaby
> Sent: 20 December 2020 08:55
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:46 PM Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> >
> > Le sam. 19 déc. 2020 à 22:41, Sam Ravnborg a écrit :
> > > Another said that it would be a shame to sunset sun4m and sun4d because
> > > there are so many machines around, and
Hi Romain,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 8:26 PM Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>
> Le dim. 20 déc. 2020 à 09:54, Julian Calaby a écrit
> :
> > If I want to run them, assuming the hardware still works, I need to
> > netboot them as I cannot find working, compatible HDDs for them as
> > everything has
Le dim. 20 déc. 2020 à 09:54, Julian Calaby a écrit :
> If I want to run them, assuming the hardware still works, I need to
> netboot them as I cannot find working, compatible HDDs for them as
> everything has switched to SATA or SAS.
SCSI2SD
Hi Romain, Sam,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:46 PM Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>
> Le sam. 19 déc. 2020 à 22:41, Sam Ravnborg a écrit :
> > Another said that it would be a shame to sunset sun4m and sun4d because
> > there are so many machines around, and netbsd is also active on the
> > sparc32 area.
>
Le sam. 19 déc. 2020 à 22:41, Sam Ravnborg a écrit :
> Another said that it would be a shame to sunset sun4m and sun4d because
> there are so many machines around, and netbsd is also active on the
> sparc32 area.
Yes, those were plentiful back in the day and there's still quite a few around.
>
On 12/19/20 10:40 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Please keep the inputs coming independent if you are pro or not
> for the sunset of sun4m and sun4d.
I would personally be in favor of keeping it and I should finally get
my SPARCstation 5 up and running again.
Adrian
--
.''`. John Paul Adrian
Hi all,
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 07:43:34PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The sun4m and sun4d based SPARC machines was very popular in the
> 90'ties and was then replaced by the more powerful sparc64
> class of machines.
I have received a couple of mails in private.
One said it was better to
On 18/12/2020, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The sun4m and sun4d based SPARC machines was very popular in the
> 90'ties and was then replaced by the more powerful sparc64
> class of machines.
> Today there is only Gentoo that to my best knowledge supports
> sparc32 and people have moved on to more
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 7:43 PM Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> The sun4m and sun4d based SPARC machines was very popular in the
> 90'ties and was then replaced by the more powerful sparc64
> class of machines.
> Today there is only Gentoo that to my best knowledge supports
> sparc32 and people have
The sun4m and sun4d based SPARC machines was very popular in the
90'ties and was then replaced by the more powerful sparc64
class of machines.
Today there is only Gentoo that to my best knowledge supports
sparc32 and people have moved on to more capable HW.
Cobham Gaisler have variants of the
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