Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise 10000 support and developer access

[Mike Spenard <mikes@signull.com>]

Ferris McCormick wrote:
>   
>> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:33:14 -0400
>> From: Mike Spenard <mikes@signull.com>
>> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
>> Cc: armin76@gentoo.org,  fmccor@gentoo.org
>> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise 10000 support and developer
>> access
>>
>>
>> Raúl-Ferris,
>>  This past week I made an e10k I own/operate accessible [i.e. the SSP] 
>> to Mark Kettenis the OpenBSD-sparc maintainer. And Mark added
>> support for the Sun Enterprise 10000 (SMP and e10k RTC support). Theo 
>> thought it was very beneficial as a few bugs effecting other
>> systems were picked up in the process.
>>
>>  I thought I would extend the opportunity to the Gentoo-sparc team.
>>
>> Mike Spenard
>> - -- 
>> gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>>     
>
> Mike,
>   Thanks for the offer.  Currently, we do have access to a system at OSL
> for sparc development and probably do not need access to yours.
> However, I am making sure that everyone on the sparc team sees that your
> system is available in case any individual can use your specific
> configuration.  We ourselves really do very little kernel work and
> probably cannot use it for that.  It is possible, though, that your
> system can be useful when we find issues which are system-specific, in
> which case you can expect to hear from us further.
>   I do not know how you use your system or what operating system you
> usually have running on it.  If you happen to run Gentoo/linux on it and
> wish to become involved in our sparc project, I invite you to read about
> the Architecture Testing program at
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/at/index.xml and consider if
> you are interested in that.
>
> Thangs again, and
> Regards,
> Ferris
>   
Hi Ferris,
 Currently the diskless boot image bombs, and another e10k user I know 
hasn't been able
to install Gentoo on his machine via cdrom either. Could you put me in 
touch with someone
that can do linux-sparc kernel and diskless boot image development?

Thanks,
 Mike


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