After several months of playing with a simulated Serengeti machine I have started to have some fun with a real hardware containing an UltraSPARC III CPU. It is a Sun Blade 1500 workstation which I’ve been lent by Sun Microsystems globalization division.

A Spanish (or French?) keyboard is connected to it (you know, globalization division…), but this is not the most interesting challenge. The most interesting thing is a way how to debug the kernel on such a machine.

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