NetBSD on Sun's 64-bit Ultrasparc based machines (NetBSD/sparc64)

Martin Husemann | 17 Apr 2012 23:51

ATF tests expected to all succeed now

Folks,

with one not yet commited change (awaiting final review) expected to land
tomorrow, the next official sparc64 test run will likely give us zero failed
tests for the first time. The missing changes are small and will be pulled
up to netbsd-6.

This does not mean there are no bugs left, of course, but still is a
remarkable milestone.

Next steps will be to fix some netbsd32 problems and get us closer to this
state when running a sparc userland (either with 32bit or 64bit kernel),
maybe at the same time improving sparc results.

Martin

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Chris Ross | 18 Apr 2012 04:05

Re: ATF tests expected to all succeed now

On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> with one not yet commited change (awaiting final review) expected to land
> tomorrow, the next official sparc64 test run will likely give us zero failed
> tests for the first time. The missing changes are small and will be pulled
> up to netbsd-6.
> 
> This does not mean there are no bugs left, of course, but still is a
> remarkable milestone.

  Thank you!  As someone who still loves to use [old] sparc64 hosts, and is in the midst of building a
replacement for a sparc64 server (the replacement running netbsd-6), this is great news…

  Much appreciated.  

                   - Chris