Re: Fujitsu PrimePower 250
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:22:57AM +0100, Nizar TLILI wrote:
> I have downloaded and tried to install debian I have a kernel error at
> booting from cdrom is there any way to install debian or any other distro
> (even a minimal kernel recompiled)
That is to be expected - the Linux kernel lacks support for the SPARC64
family.
> are the differences between the Fujitsu's processor and Sun's ones as
> enormous than that?
Not enormous from my understanding (SPARC64 implements the SPARCv9
specification after all), but there are some fundamental differences.
> I could read some docs if available and contribute to porting the kernel (I
> am a computer science specialist and I work with a research center in
> nuclear physics, this station is for calculus and simulations and finally I
> hate proprietary software).
If you don't mind hacking on it, you may want to try and get the manuals
for the SPARC64 processor and see what needs to be done.
Take a look at
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/server/unix/documents/ for
some useful starting documents.
-mj
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