Re: Sparc server availability

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

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