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SPARC (from Scalable PRocessor ARChitecture) is a RISC CPU architecture developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).

SPARC is a RISC CPU architecture developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), used mostly in servers and supercomputers.

An open-source implementation, called the OpenSPARC is available. Common operating systems include Solaris and Linux, though FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are available.

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How to prevent network autodetection in debian-install?

I'm trying to use the Debian install media rescue mode on a Sun Ultra 10 so that I can use the shell to investigate an old SCSI disk I have. It seems that the last version of Debian where a SPARC build was available with anything more than a…
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Booting Solaris 10 or 11 for Sparc in qemu-system-sparc64

I'm trying to boot Solaris 10 or Solaris 11 for SPARC using qemu-system-sparc64 but keep running into problems early on. I'm using the DVD images sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso and sol-11_2-text-sparc.iso available from SUN's^WOracle's web…
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Sun UltraSparc IIIi Solaris 5.10 emulation

I have an old Sun Blade 1500, with a Ultrasparc IIIi 1.5 GHz, 2GB ECC RAM. SunOS 5.10, ufs filesystem. The hardware (MB, HDD and video card) is failing on me and I'm searching for a way to emulate it on x86 hardware. I have a DD raw copy of the HDD…
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Can't Install firefox in OpenBSD/sparc64

I just installed OpenBSD on a sparc64 based pc but when I try to do pkg_add -v firefox it says can't find firefox. I also tried installing nano, which installed fine, so why can't it find firefox.
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build missing Debian package dependency from source?

I'm currently trying to install PCP on Debian with sparc64. Unfortunately it requires the package libreadline6 (>= 6.0) which doesn't have an apt package for sparc64. libreadline7 does and is installed. My solution was building gnu readline v6.3…
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Running a Solaris binary on SPARC without SPARC hardware

I have a historical binary ObjectGeode which is only able to work on SUN SPARC machine with Solaris OS (doesn't matter which Solaris version). My questions are: How can I run the program without Sun-SPARC hardware? If emulation is the only…
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Break key for solaris sparc with serial terminal

On Solaris I use stop+a to enter prom If terminal is serial console without stop key,what is the break key? I try stty -a but no break key found. CTRL+C of course doesn't work because only interrupt program
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Qemu SPARC boot panic on Solaris

I want to boot Solaris8 SPARC version by Qemu. $ qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom SOL_8_204_SPARC.iso -net nic -net user -m 2048 But it shows this error: OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0 kernel cmdline…
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Edit VTOC label in Linux as guest LDom in Solaris after resizing vdisk zvol

I've got a Solaris 10 system on SPARC hosting multiple Linux guest LDoms which were installed on ZFS zvols. After resizing the zvol though, the Linux doesn't "detect" that disk resized, and from what I can gather this is probably due to the VTOC on…
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Upgrading Solaris zone to solaris 11

We have solaris zones running in Sparc T5 server Currently a solaris zone run Solaris 10 OS version. $uname -a SunOS zone01 5.10 Generic_150400-30 sun4v sparc sun4v Going further, we would like this zone to run Solaris 11 OS version, because…
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How to NOT load Solaris SPARC drivers at boot

Trying to get a driver (one of ours) working on Solaris 10 / 11 (this box happens to be Sol 10), with dev studio 12.3. It seems to be built, however, it crashes when loading, thanks to a NULL pointer dereference and the box now endlessly reboots. I…
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When mirroring a whole root zone rpool, do you have to install a boot block?

I am mirroring a zfs rpool for a whole root zone to move from one storage array to another. I have mirrored the disk, but do I need to install a boot block on the new disk?
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Switching language from French to English in Solaris 8

I have Solaris 8 OS installed in French. I have a computer with Solaris 8 OS and French language installed. This computer isn't in my office; to access it I use Exceed. I have to switch the installed language from fr_FR.UTF-8 to en_US.ISO8859-15 How…
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PHP 7.1.2 cannot Gmake : Zend Error

I use Solaris 11.3 Sparc 64 bit, Mysql Enterprise Advance 5.7.1, Apache 2.4.25 and PHP 7.1.2 I configure PHP with following parameter. export CC="gcc -m64" export CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" ./configure --prefix=/opt/app/php --with-openssl=/opt/app/openssl…
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Is there disk-level caching in Solaris 11?

I have an iSCSI disk at /dev/rdsk/c5t6d0 I have made a partition (slice with UEFI label) at: /dev/rdsk/c5t6d0s0 Now I write some data to the slice: echo "xyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxy" >/text dd if=/text…
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