Re: Curernt support for SS1000?
> Martin> I was under the impression that sun4d was supported undeer
> Martin> the 2.2 series but had been broken (and not fixed) under
> Martin> 2.4.
> i have read that elsewhere too.
I belive it was due to a lack of maintainers with adequate hardware.
> Martin> I also thought all sun4d boxen were SMP.
> so far as i am aware (and i'm no Sun expert), the only sun4d machines
> were the SPARCservers 1000, 1000e, 2000 and 2000e(?),
AFAIK yes.
> all of which i
> believe are SMP capable. the 1000e (which i have) takes up to 4
> motherboards on a common backplane, each of which has two m-bus slots
> for a maximum of 8 cpus.
Although I don't know if the rumours about dual processor mbus cards can
be used with these...
> i imagine it would run with one CPU, but where's the fun in that? :-)
Quite!
> Martin> NetBSD? I can't see anything about sun4d on their site but
> Martin> they seem to support some of the SPARCbooks and IIRC some of
> Martin> them were sun4e for which support is even rarer...
> their mailing lists seem to point in this direction :-)
Oh. 'twas justa thought - what with their claims about maximum
portability et al.
> Martin> If you haven't asked already then these people
> Martin> http://www.sunhelp.org/lists.php may well be able to shed
> Martin> some light on the situation.
> thanks. i'll chase that up.
These peoepl really are experts; the list is quite high traffic but they
*really* know their hardware.
> Martin> I have a 2 CPU SS1000E on the desk next to me and would
> Martin> dearly love to get it running something more up to date and
> Martin> useable than the current broken version of Solaris on it -
> Martin> please do let me / us know if you find anything.
> will do.
Thanks.
Cheers,
- Martin
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Martin
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