Re: envstat drivers on SUN Ultra-45?

Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:08:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Organization GENUNIX
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/19/26 13:29, Palle Lyckegaard wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 
>>
>>     I have an ORACLE SPARC-S7 unit doing nothing much. Wonder if
>>  anyone has tried. I guess I could make a coffee and try.
>>
> 
> Booting from cdrom/dvd or miniroot should work, but crashes during the 
> sysinst stage when running the MAKEDEV script.
> 
> Debugging the issue...
> 
> Please feel free to try yourself with a recent HER build from https:// 
> nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/
> 
> Regards
> Palle Lyckegaard
> [email protected]


Thank you for the reply.  The word I am given from other people is
that anything sun4v will fail. However NetBSD runs fine on a lot of
sun4u ultrasparc machines and even on sun4m old old machines.  Also
the Fujitsu M3000 is broken entirely. Useless for anything but very
limited Solaris 10.



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