Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?

[Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>]

On 5/5/12 9:21 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Is anyone having any sun4c boxes alive and running Linux?
>
> I have a nice box myself that does not boot - I do not know why.
> But we are talking abot slow and old stuff here.
>
> Is it time to drop support for sun4c - or is anyone still
> having an interest keeping that platform alive?
I do.

I collect the Sun lunchbox systems (IPC, IPX, Classic, Classic/X and 
LX), which includes sun4c machines.  I run Linux and *BSD on them.  But 
the Linux that I am running on them is pretty old.

I have interest in keeping the platform alive, but my day job (Solaris 
kernel developer at Oracle) prevents me from working on the platform.

alan

>
> Looking into recent history of the kernel only one person
> (Mark - copied) seems to have contributed
> solely for the purpose of getting a sun4c box working.
>
>
> Sunstuff has a list of boxes based on sun4c here:
> http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun4/sun4c/
>
> SPARCstation 1, SLC, IPC, 1+, 2, ELC, IPX
> SPARCengine 1
>
>
> 	Sam
>
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