Re: List of supported machines and flaws with it?

[ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> writes:

> 2)  Is there a list of hardware which work or does not work?

Support for `sun4c' machines (e.g., SS2, SS1, IPC) was officially
dropped in Etch.  I believe Sarge was already hardly installable on such
machines [0].

Support for SMP `sun4m' was dropped (well, largely unmaintained) in the
2.6 Linux kernel and is now slowly reappearing.  However, AFAIK, it is
not yet considered stable.  Thus, Etch won't have any `sparc32-smp'
kernel image [1].  2.4 SMP kernels that came with Sarge do work, though.

As for `sun4d' machines, I don't know.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/05/msg00084.html
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/12/msg00009.html