Re: Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m
Eric Jorgensen <alhaz@xmission.com> wrote:
> The RT601 they're referring to is actually a Sparc v7 chip, and as such
> is not supported by Sarge in the first place.
It's also only found on the SM100 modules, which are only supported by
Sun in the 670MP and similar VME beasts, but not in any other MBus
machine. Anyone using a SM100 in a SS10 or SS20 (or, worse, in a SS1000
or SS2000) is asking for trouble in a painfully slow way.
> I have sincere doubts whether there are more than a handfull of
> supported configurations that actually need this fix, if any at all.
I don't think support for SM100 should be any concern to aynone, except
for historical interest - in which case SunOS 4.1.4 will do SMP
reasonably well on them. Anyone else should scrounge better, faster,
more reliable SMBus modules (except maybe the SM20 or SM30, which are
nearly as crappy as the SM100, but *are* v8 compliant).
All other sun4m machines have v8 compliant CPUs, AFAICR.
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Romain Dolbeau
<romain@dolbeau.org>
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