Re: New Solaris CBE release available

Hi All,

Since I originally reported the issue with the previous CBE on the SPARC 
S7‑2—and provided a temporary workaround—I wanted to follow up. During a 
recent OS installation, I confirmed that the latest Solaris CBE resolves 
the SATA hard‑drive problem on the S7‑2. Under the older CBE, a 
ZFS‑related error prevented the system from booting when a SATA drive 
was present, leaving SAS as the only viable option.

Thanks again for resolving this issue.

Regards

Tony Rodriguez

On 3/7/26 4:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 3/7/26 01:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> first of all, thanks a lot for providing another CBE release within 
>> such a short
>> interval after the last one! I have already updated Debian's SPARC 
>> servers without
>> any issues.
>>
>> Being able to run a recent version of Solaris puts peace to the mind 
>> as we don't
>> have to worry about potential unfixed CVEs. Plus, there are users who 
>> have reported
>> issues with the previous CBE release on their SPARC S7, so I hope 
>> that issue will now
>> be fixed as well.
>>
>> So, huge thanks to you and your colleagues for making this possible!
>
> You're welcome.
>
>> I think that date was also pushed into the future already, wasn't it? 
>> I think the
>> original plan foresaw the end of the service life in 2034, didn't it?
>
> Yes, it was pushed out from 2034 to 2037 by request of customers who 
> plan their
> IT infrastructure many years into the future.  Whether it gets 
> extended again
> is still TBD.  (And to be pedantically correct, the original plan for 
> Solaris 11
> had a support life ending in 2024, which was then extended to 2034 
> when it was
> decided to turn our Solaris 12 work-in-progress into an 11.4 release 
> and stay on
> Solaris 11 for the long term.)
>
>> Btw, there are some open-source projects involving SPARC that Oracle 
>> previously worked
>> on but that never got upstreamed. For example, there is an incomplete 
>> port of libunwind
>> to SPARC [1] that I extracted from the Oracle Linux 6 sources. I 
>> would love to get these
>> upstreamed and have been trying to reach out to Oracle engineers to 
>> make this happen. If
>> you have the possibility to talk to some people, that would be great.
>
> Unfortunately, the Linux engineers no longer work on SPARC ports, and 
> the Solaris engineers mainly work on things we need for Solaris, so 
> things like
> that may fall through the cracks.
>
>     -alan-
>