Welcome to COSSUS!

You have found the homepage for 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:

Resource list (updated July 2016)
Item Count Description Notes
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.

pkgsrc bulk build virtual machines

The primary domain has eight (8) VCPUs, 10 GB RAM, and the following partition map:

root@sunny:~% df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a      127M   52.3M   68.4M    43%    /
tmpfs          8.8G   32.0K    8.8G     0%    /tmp
/dev/sd0d     17.7G   20.9M   16.8G     0%    /var
/dev/sd0e     17.7G    2.8G   14.1G    16%    /usr
/dev/sd0f     95.1G   29.3G   61.0G    32%    /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
OSes that support sun4v
Operating system Version VCPUs RAM Vdisk Status Last completed build
Debian 7.11.0 a.k.a. "wheezy" 4 1 GB 40 GB Installing. N/A
DilOS 1.3.7.101 8 2 GB 40 GB Fails during formatting disk. Awaiting updated image from maintainer. N/A
NetBSD -current 2 1 GB 12 MB Panics on boot. N/A
OpenBSD -snapshot 8 4 GB 60 GB Installing. N/A
OpenBSD 5.9 8 4 GB 60 GB Installing. N/A
OpenSXCE 2014.05 8 4 GB 60 GB Installed. N/A
Tribblix m16 8 4 GB 60 GB Configuring network. N/A

Possible platforms

There might have been other OSes which supported sun4v. This list doesn't pretend to be complete.

OSes which supported sun4v
Operating system Last version(s) Notes
FreeBSD -HEAD (2011) Removed.
Gentoo 20141201, 20160403 LDOM allocated with 4 VCPUs, 1 GB RAM, and 40 GB vdisk. Looking for proper installation media.
OpenSolaris snv_134 Dated 2010. Not useful for our purposes, as development has ceased on it.
openSUSE 7.3, 11.3? Removed. Install images cannot be found.

Unallocated resources

TODO

  1. Setup networking for the ldoms;
  2. Schedule bulk builds;
  3. Mail OS project lists;
  4. Setup NFS on primary to serve distfiles and remove redundant storage across the ldoms;
  5. Host bulk build reports;
  6. Host binaries for respective platforms;

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