Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with
On Wednesday 2018-08-08 16:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>On 08/08/2018 04:44 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Well yes .. however it is sitting inside a rack in a remote datacenter
>> and that makes life a real drag. Sort of why I like network based
>> install processes.
>>
>> Regardless, looking at /boot/silo.conf in the netinst I don't see any
>> support for sun4v platforms and so this may be just a waste of effort.
>
>Umm, what?
>
>root@osaka:~# uname -a
>Linux osaka 4.17.0-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 4.17.8-1 (2018-07-20) sparc64 GNU/Linux
>root@osaka:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep sun
>type : sun4v
>MMU Type : Hypervisor (sun4v)
>root@osaka:~#
>
>What makes you think Debian doesn't run on a T4 when we've been running
>it on a T5 in the past and folk at Oracle even running on an M8?!?!
maybe the logic that T4 compares as "less" to both T5 and M8.
But psst, don't tell him it also works on T1 and T2. ;-)
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