Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
>>This also affects the install-manual where "sun4cdm and sun4u" is
>> mentioned as
>>supported (What's sun4d and is it really supported?)
>>
> Sun4d is the Sparcserver 1000 and 2000 series, they are 32 bit SMP
> boxes. Very similar to Sun4m, they work fine in single processor mode
> with 2.4.27 and above, but SMP is still badly broken. More kernel work
> is required.
Have you directly tested >= 2.4.27 ? Last time I checked everything from
about 2.4 onwards was kinda broken. There is a fix for the 2.2.20 kernel
to get SMP working on machines with uniform clock speeds (IIRC each board
must have consistant speed processors but it can vary between boards).
In the past there has been quite a bit of interest on this list about
resurrecting sun4d support, all that appears to be missing is someone to
co-ordinate the effort.
When I tested it woody did not run 'out of the box' on sun4d. I do not
know of anyone trying sarge.
HTH
Cheers,
- Martin
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