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On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 01:54:35PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> For everyone's information, sparc is in its current state because |
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> bender, our sparc development system hosted at OSUOSL died in April |
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> and Infra has not fixed it for whatever reason. |
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Infra had the failed OS hard-drive replaced back in April and left it |
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for the arch team to get reinstalled (this was left in the hands of |
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jmorgan, who then retired, jmbsvicetto was going to do it as an arch |
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member, but I don't think he had time to get back to it). Last I see in |
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IRC logs, the Solaris install kept getting stuck in the ALOM console. |
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The past practice has been that Infra takes care of the hardware & |
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connectivity, and the arch team takes care of the OS/software. This came |
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from arch teams not wanting infra to manage systems before, then |
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turnover in the arch teams left the systems under-maintained. Infra |
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doesn't even have access to all of the dev systems at OSL :-(. |
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> I have contacted Oracle about donating modern hardware to the Gentoo |
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> Foundation and they expressed interest, but nothing concrete has |
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> happened yet. |
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Sparc team: Why has there been no followup on bug #607622; I asked for |
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the team to submit a proposal to BUY a used SPARC M5 (or newer)? |
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With Oracle having basically made the entire SPARC staff redundant, I |
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think it's unlikely they are going to donate hardware at this point. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Asst. Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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