Re: Fujitsu Primepower 200
You will need the Sun specs as well in order to translate all the bits
for PTEs.
Bon voyage ~:^)
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:21:04PM +0100, Filip Meuleman wrote:
> That really is a pitty...
> Does this mean that there is only one possibility : change the source (and
> recompile) the Debian SPARC kernel according to detailed specs which I can
> hopefully find somewhere on the net ?
>
> If this is the way to go, I'm ready to try it. I've never done this before
> (changing source, recompiling a kernel), but I'm not afraid of a nice
> challenge now and then. I guess you and other members on the list are ready
> to give me help when I need some.
>
> Filip
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Sharp" <andy@netfall.com>
> To: "Filip Meuleman" <Filip.Meuleman@lid.kviv.be>
> Cc: "Andrew, Chris Mr" <Chris.Andrew485@mod.uk>;
> <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Fujitsu Primepower 200
>
>
> > In that case, it is running a ultraSPARC-2 compatible processor made by
> > HaL (later bought by Fujitsu) and while it does run Solaris, because
> > Solaris has been ported to the processor (I helped port Solaris 8
> > to this processor back in the day as a contractor for Fuj), Linux
> > does not work on it. It has a different MMU and a slightly different
> > register window size (I can't remember if it's smaller or larger) and
> > a slightly different FPU and slightly different boot PROM. Because of
> > these differences, Linux has never been ported to it. It was a nice
> > processor though, significantly faster per clock than an ultraSPARC 2.
> > I don't think the programming specs were ever released to the public,
> > although it isn't some great secret for some time now, so maybe they
> > are available somewhere on the internet.
> >
> > >From the user level, they are supposed to be indistinguishable, but
> > if you have a program with one of the 2-3 floating point instructions
> > that their FPU doesn't have, those would be emulated via kernel traps.
> > Very slow but really should never happen because program should never
> > have these instructions embedded in them, they should always use the
> > libraries, so that they will run at a fast speed no matter what model
> > processor they are on. An architecture that I think glibc is just
> > starting to warm up to these days.
> >
> > a
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:05:41PM +0100, Filip Meuleman wrote:
> > > It defintively is, Chris.
> > > It has a SPARC64 processor ("SPARC64 GP", according to the datasheet).
> There is some more info on
> http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/unix/archives/PRMPWR
> _200.html
> > > The processor is conform to the SPARC International V9 architecture...
> (I have no idea what this means exactly, but it sounds nice)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Filip
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Andrew, Chris Mr
> > > To: Filip Meuleman
> > > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:48 AM
> > > Subject: RE: Fujitsu Primepower 200
> > >
> > >
> > > Filip,
> > >
> > > Forgive my innocence, is this machine SPARC based?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Chris.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > From: Filip Meuleman [mailto:Filip.Meuleman@lid.kviv.be]
> > > Sent: 26 November 2005 20:14
> > > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Fujitsu Primepower 200
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install Debian Sparc on a Fujitsu Primepower 200
> machine.
> > > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work out : I can't make the machine
> booting on the Netinst Debian CD. Doing so only gives me an error message
> "...Data Exception..." or something.
> > >
> > > Has anybody ever installed Debian on such a machine ? Any ideas ?
> > >
> > > Thanks !
> > >
> > > Filip
> >
>
>
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