James Chacon wrote:

> I went ahead and put a new sparc64 snapshot on the ftp server.

Neat.  I managed to get my -stable system upgraded to -current via a
cross build on my laptop anyway, but this snapshot should prove handy
in the future.

> This doesn't include X right now but if there's need I can go ahead and
> compile one up.

What's the status of X servers on sparc64 at the moment?  I understand
that a vga/ffb driver needs to be written before it'll work, but I could
be completely wrong :)

I did try building X on -current a few weeks ago but it bombed out.  IIRC
it was due to an internal compiler error.  Will try again this weekend,
but don't really want to waste my time if I can't actually do anything.

I have some Creator 3D card.

One more thing - I have an /ofwboot from the previous snapshot currently
installed which works fine, but whenever I try to install a newer
ofwboot from a make build I just get

..Illegal instruction

when trying to boot.  What's the best diagnostic stuff I can provide for
debugging this?

Jon (weighing up either a Netra X1 or Supermicro x86 1u machine for colo :)

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