Re: Tracing NetBSD sun4v issues

[Palle Lyckegaard <palle%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2026, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> I have a SPARC S7-2 sitting around doing nothing. I guess I can try
> a LDOM on there and see what I see. I recall that last time I tried
> this it was not a very stable result. Also, OpenBSD would not even
> boot. So clearly there is something afoot in the BSD world for this
> sort of hardware.

Yes please try the latest -current on your s7 system.

Please report back here your results when running in a ldom.

And if you have access to an external usb cd drive you can try to boot 
from an install iso and report back any issues.


> Linux is still a project in the hands of other people and I will not
> even waste my time until a boatload of patches go upstream. Not a
> surprise that ORACLE Solaris 11.4 runs just fine. No big deal.
>
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> Dennis Clarke
> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
> UNIX and Linux spoken