Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?
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Hi Steven,
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Steven Wilcoxon wrote:
> > > > Recently, however, we've been offered an Ultra Enterprise 5000.
> > > > (..) Could such a dragon run Linux?
> > >
> > > If it helps any, I'm running a 14 cpu E4500 with SCSI drives attach under
> > > 2.4.21. I had very few problems getting it up and running with Debian
> > > Woody (r1) with a Sun keyboard & VGA multi-sync monitor attached. Once I
> > > had everything setup, I switched to serial.
> >
> > Does Linux 2.4.21 fully utilize all 14 cpu's?
>
> All 14 CPU's are running happily. you should see how fast the kernel compile
> with -j14. If I remember correctly, I went SMP initially with the 2.4.18-SMP
> kernel from Debian. But, I wanted some of the improvements in the newer
> kernel and I installed devfs as well.
Cool! :) Wow, Linux has truly come a long way. It will be interesting
to compare the performance of 2.6 final to Solaris 9 :)
> > I'll have to dive into SOC+ stuff too, I guess... :)
>
> There are reports that the SOC+ code got broken, but it could be that the
> microcode from Solaris just wasn't installed correctly. Even if the SOC+
> driver does work correctly, you still need to boot from SCSI according to old
> docs.
I guess there isn't any new documentation on this?
I can only find old posts.. [1]
Anyway, thanks for your help! I'll try to return to this list when I have
actually installed the beast :)
Regards,
Pieter-Paul
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200201/msg00121.html
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