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

got a #sparcstation 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 → https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

I began to resume my old #Sparc #Ultra10... The battery of nvram is completely dead (well, after 25 years...)

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

Ich meine mich daran zu erinnern dass die Russen mal #sparc-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...

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 → https://www.twitch.tv/europa64

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObIsKwh80A

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Any low-level #SPARC #SPARC64 #UltraSPARC gurus around? I want to know why my code doesn't exit.

https://gist.github.com/bitofhope/b47b09e9923504a453b00cd4ee228d0a

The #gentoo #sparc builders are back up and happily doing builds again!

https://builder.sourceware.org/buildbot/

got a #sparcstation 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 → https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

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

https://builder.sourceware.org

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

#elfutils, #libabigail, #bzip2, #debugedit, #gccrust, #binutils, #gdb, #gcc, #systemtap, #glibc, #gnupoke.

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

does your #sparcstation 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 https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

@LaurentFr l'installation sur disque est en cours. #sun #solaris #sparc #qemu

Trying Out #BlueSCSI On SPARCStations! V1 & V2
- Jamie's Hack Shack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3gKCGi6JQ

#BlueSCSI #VintageComputing #SPARC #SPARCStation

#retrocomputing #netbsd #sparc 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 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 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 cg14, sx & mgx framebuffer changes (1/n)

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

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)

got a #sparcstation but no keyboard or mouse?

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

https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun

#retrocomputing #sparc #sunmicrosystems

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