Bosco · @BoscoLab
163 followers · 154 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

Repair time for the SUN SPARCstation 4 after shipping damage. I it looks good. Time for a test. 🫣

#sunmicrosystems #sparcstation #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
362 followers · 746 posts · Server kolektiva.social

got a with a dead nvram battery, or a missing keyboard or mouse?

usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation, and it can even remember your hostid and reprogram your idprom!

two adapters left in stock → go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#sparcstation #retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

I began to resume my old ... The battery of nvram is completely dead (well, after 25 years...)

#sparc #ultra10

Last updated 1 year ago

Martin :verified_coffee: :tux: · @MartinWdd
822 followers · 7471 posts · Server troet.cafe

Russischer CPU-Hersteller ist pleite: winfuture.de/news,138193.html

Ich meine mich daran zu erinnern dass die Russen mal -Prozessoren unabhängig werden wollten...

Auf jeden Fall freut mich, dass die russische Wirtschaft langsam vor die Hunde geht - vielleicht bleibt dann irgendwann mal kein Geld mehr für Krieg...

#sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
347 followers · 715 posts · Server kolektiva.social

come watch @europa6502 install solaris 8 on her sun ultra 5 with the help of usb3sun!

stream starts in 12 hours at 14:00 CT / 19:00 UTC → twitch.tv/europa64

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
344 followers · 711 posts · Server kolektiva.social

new video from @europa6502! using usb3sun to control her sun ultra 5 with a usb keyboard and trackball, featuring openbsd, cde, and dillo :D

youtube.com/watch?v=EObIsKwh80

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

bitofhope · @bitofhope
37 followers · 1039 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Any low-level gurus around? I want to know why my code doesn't exit.

gist.github.com/bitofhope/b47b

#sparc #sparc64 #ultrasparc

Last updated 1 year ago

Sourceware · @sourceware
48 followers · 15 posts · Server fosstodon.org

The builders are back up and happily doing builds again!

builder.sourceware.org/buildbo

#gentoo #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
323 followers · 651 posts · Server kolektiva.social

got a but no keyboard or mouse? does your sparcstation have a dead nvram battery?

usb3sun lets you use a usb keyboard and mouse with your sun workstation, and it even has a macro for reprogramming your idprom!

rev A2 now available → go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#sparcstation #retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

Sourceware · @sourceware
36 followers · 13 posts · Server fosstodon.org

The builders are disabled for now because the worker had become a little too unstable.

builder.sourceware.org

We hope to get it back soon because it is doing a lot of builds for projects.

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#gentoo #sparc #Sourceware #elfutils #libabigail #bzip2 #debugedit #GCCRust #binutils #gdb #gcc #systemtap #glibc #gnupoke

Last updated 1 year ago

Chuck D'Antonio · @crdant
11 followers · 4 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Felt old this morning…someone was talking about their Spark cluster for training a model and I was wondering why they were using such old hardware.

#sparc #greybeard

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
313 followers · 635 posts · Server kolektiva.social

does your have a dead nvram battery?

with usb3sun 1.5, you can reprogram your idprom with just a few keystrokes!

find out more or buy one at go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#sparcstation #retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

Soliman Hindy · @solimanhindy
150 followers · 457 posts · Server mastodon.lovetux.net

@LaurentFr l'installation sur disque est en cours.

#sun #solaris #sparc #qemu

Last updated 1 year ago

BlueSCSI · @BlueSCSI
483 followers · 254 posts · Server hachyderm.io
abs(in)the · @abs0
178 followers · 781 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

framebuffer changes (4/n)

Again, all I'm doing is testing patch pullups into a netbsd-10 tree, with an eye to submitting them for the official release, and making them available for anyone interested with hardware (and inviting feedback :) Most of these changes will affect console usage, while others X11.

#retrocomputing #netbsd #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

abs(in)the · @abs0
178 followers · 780 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

framebuffer changes (3/n)

This is on top of existing changes from netbsd-9, which include many small improvements and bugfixes, plus adding proper 8bit support to the hw acceleration code in xf86-video-suncg14 for people with 4MB cg14 who prefer higher resolutions over colour depth. (According to x11perf it's somewhere between a turbo and a non-turbo GX, but one that can do 1920x1200. And a 4MB cg14 is probably easier to find than a TGX+)

#retrocomputing #netbsd #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

abs(in)the · @abs0
178 followers · 779 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

framebuffer changes (2/n)

- Glyphcache alignment to allow 32 bit accesses for SX and similar hardware (permedia 2) where possible
- Changes to vcons to avoid writes to help on slow framebuffers
- Initialise sx diagnostic register (10% speed increase when rendering antialiased text)
- periodically drain the instruction queue in order to avoid stalling the MBus on sx & cg14
- mgx improvements, including caching DEC & FG registers & avoiding waiting where possible

#retrocomputing #netbsd #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

abs(in)the · @abs0
178 followers · 778 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

cg14, sx & mgx framebuffer changes (1/n)

tl;dr - netbsd-10 builds with cg14, sx & mgx framebuffer improvements in sync.absd.org/sparc/netbsd-10/ & sync.absd.org/sparc64/netbsd-1

I've just taken a pass through recent NetBSD HEAD changes for sparc framebuffers, and generated a set of patches looking to get the
changes pulled up into netbsd-10 before (pretty much all of these are by macallan@, my only input here is in running cvs diff & patch)

#retrocomputing #netbsd #sparc

Last updated 1 year ago

delan · @delan
264 followers · 580 posts · Server kolektiva.social

got a but no keyboard or mouse?

usb3sun has you covered, and now there’s one last adapter in stock before our next run :3

go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#sparcstation #retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Last updated 1 year ago

Profoundly Nerdy · @profoundlynerdy
82 followers · 390 posts · Server bitbang.social

@mike If you're into hardware, I know the project would welcome new contributors to test ebuilds on that hardware.

#sparc #gentoo #sun

Last updated 1 year ago