Donations needed for sparc64 port

Contributed by Dengue on 2001-08-28 from the support-your-local-porter dept.

Anonymous Coward writes : "art@openbsd.org sent the following to the sparc@ mailing list recently:
I'm working a lot on the ultrasparc port right now. At the moment I only have one machine which makes the development slow and sometimes annoying. I could really use another machine as soon as possible in Stockholm, I'd prefer an Ultra 10 or some other decent pci machine (leaving the sbus work for jason).
See the donations page for information on how you can help."

(Comments are closed)

Comments

By Dantec () ngarnier@mac.com on 2001-08-28 08:59 mailto:ngarnier@mac.com

I see on the SUN Linux page this :
"The UltraLinux project to make Linux available on the UltraSPARC architecture was the work of an independent group of software engineers [...]. Sun assisted the team by providing them with Sun[tm] workstations as well as technical information to facilitate their work."
http://www.sun.com/software/linux/compatibility/ultralinux/ Why OpenBSD developpers don't ask SUN directly to obtain UltraSPARC hardware ?
By Blake () blake at two one one two dot net on 2001-08-29 11:41 dub dub dub dot two one one two dot net

how about an escrow auction? If everybody put $10 US towards this , it wouldn't take too long before enough cash could be raised to get one of the new $1000 Ultra boxen.
By Anonymous Coward () on 2001-08-30 18:02

Blah-blah-blah... as always.

Just send $20 to obsdpaypal@openbsd.org via PayPal instead of smart suggestions...
By Janos Mohacsi () pogacsahu@yahoo.co.uk on 2001-09-02 11:56 mailto:pogacsahu@yahoo.co.uk

I think the OpenBSD and NetBSD community should go together to broaden the BSD suppport on different platforms.

I think NetBSD has a quite good support on Sparc64 platforms. They should improve it for larger systems (2-8 processor UltraEnterprise systems) and for entry systems (SunBlade).

They has to work on some kind of Solaris Emulation also (FreeBSD has some SVR4 emulation on x86 platform).

And after OpenBSD should maintain their differences regularly from the NetBSD Sparc64 code (or unite the two project somehow).

NetBSD developer should encourage and help testing OpenBSD Sparc64 on their existing infrastructure.

I think thay are only few resources are available they should be united to better results and support.
By Anonymous Coward (212.54.17.234) on 2004-07-16 22:49

Crud. I just gave away two Axi boards because I didn't have time for them. I should have thought about giving them to system developers. Most of my other hardware doesn't seem to be on wanted lists.

Latest Articles

Thu, Apr 18
- 05:05 Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input (0)
Wed, Apr 17
- 05:33 In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax" (9)
Wed, Apr 10
- 18:50 OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released (2)
Tue, Apr 09
- 04:49 20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024-04-09) (13)
Fri, Apr 05
- 06:16 OpenBSD 7.5 released (2)
Thu, Mar 28
- 18:18 LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released (0)
Tue, Mar 12
- 06:53 OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 released! (0)
Mon, Mar 11
- 11:28 Game of Trees 0.97 released (0)
Sun, Mar 10
- 09:06 LibreSSL versions 3.8.3 and 3.9.0 released (0)

Credits

Copyright © 2004-2008 Daniel Hartmeier. All rights reserved. Articles and comments are copyright their respective authors, submission implies license to publish on this web site. Contents of the archive prior to April 2nd 2004 as well as images and HTML templates were copied from the fabulous original deadly.org with Jose's and Jim's kind permission. This journal runs as CGI with httpd(8) on OpenBSD, the source code is BSD licensed. undeadly \Un*dead"ly\, a. Not subject to death; immortal. [Obs.]