Older Code for SunOS4?

[wlewisiii]

Having recently gotten a Hyundai/Axil 320 Sparcstation 20 clone I expect to run SunOS 4.1.4 on it. Is there still an older version of the code base available that would have support for SunOS/BSD & 32 bit SparcV8 still in it?

[nbriggs]

Possibly- do you have X for it? Or can you say what framebuffer card is in it (or emulated by what is there)? I’ve compiled in 32-bit mode on a sun4v recently but it’s Solaris. Have you/ can you bootstrap gcc on it?

[wlewisiii]

It is using Open Windows on X11R5, I also have the Walnut Creek 11R6 distribution.

The frame buffer is an 8 bit TGX+ with 4mb vram running at 1280x1024 on an LCD.

I have access to both GCC 2.95 & SunC 3.0.1 and the usual support tools for both.

I have built the current code on Linux/Mint though I don't expect his to be quite as easy peasy as that was :)

[nbriggs]

OpenWindows on X11R5 should be OK to run with the X I/O (I know the code ran on X11R4 and probably got run on X11R5 as well). I don't recall whether the TGX+ framebuffer had a 1-bpp direct memory mapped mode - that was how we ran Medley before there was a working X11 version.

How much effort do you want to put into getting it going again if we can find a copy of the code from that era?

[wlewisiii]

Once I have my system set up and running, I'm willing to do quite a bit to get it to work. I'm not sure how fast I'll be. It's been a LONG time since seriously worked on SunOS/Solaris so relearning things will be part of this as well. But if I have a good copy of the code, then I'm willing to do what I can to get it running on my machine and for anyone else insane enough to running 32bit Sparc and SunOS4.x

I realize this is a niche desire so it's on me to make it happen.

[nbriggs]

OK. Let me know when you have it running, meanwhile I'll see what I can do to find a copy of the code that should work for it.