Re: Weitek Power uP Processor
Hey George-
Weitek got out of the SPARC manufacturing business in 1996 so there really
is nothing "official" from Weitek concerning Weitek POWER uP's and
Linux.
Rave bought their remaining inventory and still sells from that inventory.
I'm not sure about any chips lower than "9518". As far as I know they don't
work according to the newsgroups if they are lower.
Weitek made quite a few revisions to their POWER Up's though. I can only
add that you can try it.........
Tad
"Georges A. Tomazi" wrote:
> Tad,
>
> At 08:12 01/02/00 -0500, Tad Bilby wrote:
>
> >There is a revision number on the chip, I believe it might be the manufacture
> >date. My SPARC 2 is "9535" and works OK. The earliest revision that works
> >is "9518" or higher.
>
> Is that earliest revision that works something "official" from Weitek or
> based on your experience ? I may get a chip with the following numbers and
> I'm wondering if this will work as the third number is lower than "9518" :
>
> Weitek Power uP
> 2000-080-GCD
> N4DL [delta sign here]
> 9435W
>
> Thanks,
>
> Georges
>
> --
> Georges A. Tomazi <gt@4js.com>
> Four J's Development Tools
> [http://www.4js.com/]
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