From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Perry Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 19:26:46 +0000 Subject: Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it? Message-Id: <4FA57EF6.4040904@snowmoose.com> List-Id: References: <20120505162104.GA14563@merkur.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20120505162104.GA14563@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html