Re: SS2 with Boot 2.6

[BERTRAND Joël <mt1@systella.fr>]

Blars Blarson a écrit :
> In article <[🔎] 4464BA44.6070509@comcat.net> DieszelDawg@comcat.net writes:
>
> >   Can anyone tell me if Sarge can be installed on an SS2 (it will be a 
> > system logger) with Boot 2.6 ?  Or can I upgrade it to Open Boot ? If 
> > neither what is the newest version of SunOS or Saolaris that will run on 
> > it.  
>
>
> debian-installer support sun4m and sun4u .  All tests that I am aware
> of on sun4c failed, and there was not enough interest in debugging it
> on sun4c.  I think it requires 24 or 32 megs of memory on sparc.
>
> It should be possible to install woody then upgrade to sarge on a
> sun4c machine.  
>
> sparc is not currently scheduled for release with etch.  I've
> sugjested dropping sun4m and keeping sun4u (aka sparc64) but the
> sparc64 smp bug in 2.6 kernels is making the buildds unreliable.

	I never see any SMP bug on sparc64 after 2.6.14 release... While 
debian/Sparc uses a 32 bits userland, I don't understand why we have to 
cut the sparc port in sparc32 and sparc64 ports. Today, the main problem 
comes from the worst support of SMP in sparc32 kernel, from the ESPFAS 
(and its DMA trouble) and from the HyperSPARC cache.

> IIRC solaris 7 was the last sun release to support sun4m.  sun4c may
> have been discontinued earlier.

	Last solaris release for sun4c -> 2.7
	Last solaris release for sun4m -> 2.9

	Regards,

	JKB