Re: Which Sparc is best?
Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org> writes:
>> Another question... Are there any Package disadvantages in using a
>> Sparc over an Intel box using Debian? Is the same range of Debian
>> software available for all CPU's?
>
> With the exception of non-free software... Adobe Acrobat, etc., it's
> pretty much the same. Besides the occasional bug of something that
> needs something like an endian or byte-alignment fix (getting more and
> more rare these days), the only issue I see is that Debian/SPARC is
> compiled for the lowest common denominator... the sun4c/sparcv7 systems.
> Those don't have the integer multiply and divide instructions... the
> only place I've noticed it is in using sshd, as it uses libssl (which
> apparently does a lot of integer multiplication and/or division). For
> the most part, fortunately, this won't be much of an issue.
on my SS10, SSH v2 take nearly 30secs before prompting for password
(at debug1: expecting SSH2_G_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY),
SSH v1 take less than 1 second.
cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. - SuperSparc-(II)
fpu : SuperSparc on-chip FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 2
prom : 2.25
type : sun4m
ncpus probed : 2
ncpus active : 2
Cpu0Bogo : 74.75
Cpu1Bogo : 74.95
U type : TI Viking/CC
contexts : 65536
nocache total : 1048576
nocache used : 477952
CPU0 : online
CPU1 : online
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