Re: Will an Oracle T4-1 run NetBSD (yet)?

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:38:30 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:31:16PM +0200, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to the NetBSD Sparc64 wiki page https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/ 
> UltraSparc T1-T5 are currently unsupported, but "in-progress?. Can anyone share the current status of that work? 

See src/sys/arch/sparc64/doc/TODO:

sun4v:
 - current status: The kernel boots and starts the init process (pid 1) 
   which spawns /bin/sh (pid 2). This is forked as a new/bin/sh (pid 3) which crashes, probably due to MMU DPROT issues.


Martin