On Sun, 25 Oct 2026, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I took a break from the NetBSD experiment and moved over to Gentoo Linux. Well guess what? It makes a bit of progress and then just locks up as frozen. Over and over I would reboot and go through the motions and then Linux would just freeze. So I know this due to the fact that there are a ton of patches flying about in the wild for modern SPARC. Those patches are not going upstream or some other such problem. So that pushed Linux off the table.
Have you tried OpenBSD on your S7 system?
Do the NetBSD people have an IRC channel? I do most things with the Libera #blastwave channel open in my life and there are a ton of very sharp IT people that gather. I am certain we have the skill sets in the aggregate of brains. Who knows, maybe even a documented process that will work in a deterministic manner on modern SPARC servers. If I get a larger T7-2 or M8 then NetBSD will be of great value.
https://www.netbsd.org/community/