Re: "State of the Union" for the port (9.3)

[Romain Dolbeau <romain%dolbeau.org@localhost>]

Le ven. 23 déc. 2022 à 09:34, vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> a écrit :
> I have an SS20 (4m) and an IPX (4c) I’d be interested in putting NetBSD on.

Those are the same machines as the ones I used for doing NetBSD/sparc
stuff (<https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA>), they work rather well
(if slowly).
Primary SS20 is dual SM61 (SuperSPARC I, 60 MHz, 1 MiB cache), but I
also tested that it works with dual SM512 (dual SuperSPARC I 50 MHz, 1
MiB cache each), dual SM100 (dual SPARC, 40 MHz), and even HyperSPARC
in heterogeneous configuration (125 & 90 MHz HyperSPARC, 256 KiB
cache).

They usually boot from a SCSI2SD (I have V5 and V6) -  should move to
the bootable micro-sd in the SBusFPGA but it's still somewhat of a
moving target.

> I had it on the SS20 a while ago, and the one thing I remember is that my cgfourteen/ZX is only supported at an (unaccelerated) cgthree level.  I assume this is still the case ?

The on-board cg14/SX (with the appropriate VDIMM) should work in X11
in 24 bits with acceleration, including some Xrender acceleration, and
it's getting better
(<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2022/05/11/msg002494.html>).

The ZX I don't think is well supported in NetBSD. Never seen one in real life.

> Just wondering about any other “showstoppers” that might be present in 9.3 on these boxes.

Mostly using 9.0 with no issue I can think of.

> PS: Am I correct in remembering that binary packages stopped getting built for this port a ways back ?  I can certainly use pkgsrc - but with the (lack of) speed of these boxes - pre-built binaries were really nice...

I tend to rebuild packages in a QEmu NetBSD/sparc virtual machine, as
it's much faster (I/Os!).

Cordially,

-- 
Romain