Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c

[Andrew Sharp <andy@ccpu.com>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:11:04PM -0500, Basilio Brice?o wrote:
> Hi'
> 
> Im a newbie on debian and dual systems especially with sparc64, but I get an Enterprise 450 with 2
> cpus, I installed debian 3.0 for sparc with the cdrom installation method, I type cat /proc/cpuinfo
> ant it say
> 
> cpu             : TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)
> fpu             : UltraSparc II integrated FPU
> promlib         : Version 3 Revision 22
> prom            : 3.22.0
> type            : sun4u
> ncpus probed    : 2
> ncpus active    : 1
> Cpu0Bogo        : 956.82
> Cpu0ClkTck      : 000000001c9c3800
> MMU Type        : Spitfire
> 
> that means that this working with both processors? or I need to compile the nucleus for SMP? That I
> must do for knowing if this working to 64 bits?...

You can just do an

# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-sun4u-smp

will install an SMP kernel image for you.  As for 64bit-ness, the
userland stuff is all 32 bit, doing real 64 bit stuff is a "bit" more
involved.

a