Re: New test kernel - second attempt

On 9/21/25 11:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 11:18 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 9/21/25 01:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> Hello Tony,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 22:20 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> On another note, unsure if Oracle fixed any S7-2 related issues with the latest CBE yet.
>>>> I will download and attempt to install the latest CBE again. I did so several months ago.
>>>
>>> They have not made any new CBE release since 11.4.81, so it's naturally not fixed.
>>>
>>
>> I only cared about this because it was a good way to test the machine.
>> It boots and runs something. For one day. Not even that long. However
>> that single little SAS disk will be pulled out, labeled, stuck into an
>> envelope and then tossed into the back of a cardboard box somewhere.
>> Maybe a written word or two on the envelope that says "open in case of
>> busted S7-2". That is the end of that.
> 
> I honestly don't understand the hate.

Years of life wasted and many many people lost many many years.
Leave it at that .... moving onwards.

...
> doesn't question the whole quality of Solaris. It's merely a clear indicator that
> Oracle means it when they say the CBE releases are unsupported.

yup.

moving onwards.

> 
> I will try to reach out to some folks at Oracle though and see if we can get them
> to publish a fix for Oracle 11.4.81 CBE to help users like you.
>

Good luck.


> Sure. But please keep in mind that Linux on the SPARC S7 is still a bit
> of work-in-progress. It should be better with Linux 6.18 which contains
> the fixes for the memory corruption bugs [1] and even better when we got
> the CPU detection code in order though [2].
>

yep ... I have that stuff open and I have done a review and am looking
forwards to getting this running.


>> Mostly I am too stubborn for thatand I want a top of the line modern
>> sparc machine running Linux because Adrian says it is possible and also
>> Tony claims he has it running. So lets do that. :)
> 
> My few tests on Tony's SPARC S7 were actually quite promising. It builds
> Debian's kernel package which itself builds two fully fledged kernel
> images (uni-processor and SMP) in just about 40 minutes which even beats
> Debian's ppc64el [3] and s390x [4] buildds which build comparable kernel
> packages.


Yes ... it has some grunt. I hope that the 128G mem machine I have can
also get the job done. Others will be following along with more SPARC
machines. I think that Greg Bowne has 256G mem in his M4000. Some of
the other folks may have fairly big boxes.


> 
>> [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/1
>> [2] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/4
>> [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=ppc64el
>> [4] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=s390x
> 

Excellent resources.