[Asterisk-Users] Sun Servers with UltraSparc Processors

[daryl at introspect.net]

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> Tilghman Lesher
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sun Servers with UltraSparc Processors
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> You shouldn't face any problems with endianness.  In fact, 
> the core code should probably work right out of the box.  

Not as of 3 months ago, the last time I tried.  Test platform was Debian
running on a Netra T1 120.

I did little to try to go further, as I wasn't sure how I was going to
get a timing source even if * did compile.

> And I think it's excellent that you're thinking about doing 
> this in the lab, first, and not buying your production 
> machines without testing, first.  There've been a few users 
> who jump a little too fast, then get disappointed when their 
> first machines didn't always perform to their expectations.

I second that.

And I'd love to get * working on a Sparc.  As a matter of fact, I've for
a SunFire V120 doing absolutely nothing.  (along with a few T1's and
soon to be an E220r.......I'm phasing sun out of my NOCs due to insane
new hardware costs, wonkiness and expense of Solaris-based management
platforms (can you say dependency hell to the 1000th degree?) and how
ridiculously easy VMWare makes managing multiple low-usage
installations).

Maybe I'll give it a shot.  But I'm not a developer by any means.  Maybe
if one or more of the * devs and/or hackers want to help on this, I'll
consider providing test boxes hosted at on of my NOCs.  Chime in if
you're interested (daryl at introspect.net).

Daryl G. Jurbala
BMPC Network Operations
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