Welcome to COSSUS, the Canadian Open Source Software Unix System. We are an unincorporated institution which archive pkgsrc bulk build reports for various operating systems which support the sun4v architecture. Also, this organisation provides resources to generate build reports which are open to the public. SSH access is available to researchers who are developers and have commit bits on an open source operating system project or package management system.
COSSUS are not established nor conducted for profit nor form part of, nor are administered or directly or indirectly controlled by, a body that is established or conducted for profit. Our project is located in Montreal, CANADA. We have the following resources at our disposal:
Item | Count | Description | Notes |
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Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server | 2 | Four (4) 137 GB SAS hard drives, 32 GB RAM | Gifted by Ryerson University. |
Domains | 1 | cossus.ca | Registered for nine (9) years. |
Rack units | 2 | About 6 amps of power reserved. | Provided by local company. |
This page is under construction and some resources are not available yet.
The primary domain has eight (8) VCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and the following available space on the mount points:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 127M 56.8M 63.9M 47% / tmpfs 9.1G 40.0K 9.1G 0% /tmp /dev/sd0d 17.7G 19.1M 16.8G 0% /var /dev/sd0e 17.7G 2.8G 14.0G 17% /usr /dev/sd0f 95.1G 42.6G 47.7G 47% /home /dev/sd1a 135G 120G 7.8G 94% /home/ldomd/vdisks/group1 /dev/sd2a 135G 120G 7.8G 94% /home/ldomd/vdisks/group2 /dev/sd3a 135G 120G 7.8G 94% /home/ldomd/vdisks/group3
Operating system | Version | VCPUs | RAM | Vdisk | Status | Last completed build |
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Debian | 10.0 | 4 | 1 GB | 40 GB | Ready to build. | N/A |
DilOS | 1.3.7.136 | 8 | 2 GB | 40 GB | Ready to build. | N/A |
Gentoo | 20201116T170534Z | 4 | 2 GB | 40 GB | Installing... | N/A |
NetBSD | -current (9.99.75) | 2 | 1 GB | 12 MB | Panics on boot. | N/A |
OpenBSD | -snapshot (2020-11-17) | 8 | 4 GB | 60 GB | Ready to build. | N/A |
OpenBSD | 6.8 | 8 | 4 GB | 60 GB | Ready to build. | 2015-04-28 (5.6) |
OpenSXCE | 2014.05 | 8 | 4 GB | 60 GB | Ready to build. | N/A |
Tribblix | m20 | 8 | 4 GB | 60 GB | Configuring storage. Awaiting response from maintainer. | N/A |
generic | N/A | 4 | 1 GB | 8 GB | Awaiting deployment. | N/A |
test | N/A | 2 | 768 MB | 8 GB | Awaiting deployment. | N/A |
The generic and test LDOMs can be used to test any bootable image before it's deemed stable or assigned a proper bulk build schedule. If some LDOMs aren't utilising all available memory during development or builds, some can be reallocated to other LDOMs or used to create new ones as OSes which support this platform increase.
If developers for these OSes would like an LDOM on this system to test updated versions of their respective OSes, please contact us. There might have been other OSes which supported sun4v. This list doesn't pretend to be complete.
Operating system | Last version(s) | Notes |
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FreeBSD | -HEAD (2011) | Removed. |
OpenSolaris | snv_134 | Dated 2010-10-05. Not useful for our purposes, as development has ceased on it. |
openSUSE | 7.3, 11.3? | Removed. Install images cannot be found. |
Ubuntu | 6.06.1? | Support dropped. |
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
An Oracle SPARC T4-1 or Fujitsu M10-1 would be fine too! Nerds can dream...