Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:10:29PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
PARI has been donated three large Enterprise servers; an E6500, and E6000, and an E5500. I am in process of arranging shipping and pickup, perhaps as soon as next week. Once delivered, I will be setting these beasts up and checking them out, building drive bays, etc.
The idea is to install Aurora and bring it up to 1.92, then see abut the buildsystem for CentOS SPARC.
You're a bit late with this. I am actually already in progress on building CentOS-4/sparc (for real this time :)
I am in phase of finaliding build round for 32bit userspace and have all the bits and pieces for 64bit parts too. Even things like
Linux netra 2.6.9-15sp.EC #1 SMP Thu Aug 18 04:39:06 EEST 2005 sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux
are there, but only tested on one quad-440Mhz netra so far.
The plan being to be able to test updated methods from 1.0 or 1.92 instllations to CentOS-4/sparc this weekend. Then start to look those small pieces and anaconda hacking.
The plan being ready as of CentOS-4.2 time
You'll be perfect test victim as soon as it get all the bits and pieces together in form that i can put those public.
The 6500 is destined to replace our Ultra 30 e-mail server, and might even become our webserver as well as a potential buildfarm box for CentOS/SPARC and/or Aurora.
Builfarms are alwayswelcome. For example i do have problems with heat alone at home when i try to keep enought machines up for my work. remote machines for security fix building are always more than welcomed.
So short: Gimme at least one more week? :P