Re: debian linux on primepower (sun4us)
On Wed, Sep 18, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Helmut Koeberle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a chance to run linux on a primepower from fujitsu siemens
> > computers.
> > The architecture is called sun4us, the processors are sparc64-GP
> > (equivalent to sparc v9).
> >
> > We'd like to buy such a machine.
>
> If fujitsu were willing to release specs to their machines, it would be
> possible. That's not the case, so sparc64 will not run on it (this isn't
> specific to Debian, this is Linux in general).
The fujitsu developers have a linux kernel running on their sparc64-GP,
all they need to do is to make their patches public.
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