Re: I have an Ultra-1 Creator.
I have an Ultra 1. When I moved the jumper and
installed Solaris 7, I was asked if I wanted
to enable the 64-bit kernel, and warned that it
could possibly allow user-mode programs to kill
the system. It appeared that it gave me the
choice rather than completely disallowing any
64-bit apps. Then it re-wrote the flash prom
and I was on my way. Was it misleading me?
eric olson
eao@tiac.net
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 07:47:09PM +0100, murphy murphy wrote:
> >
> > I installed Ultra-Penguin (RedHat based) distribution on my
> > workstation. But this one is a 32-bit distribution, running
> > on UltraSparc architecture.
> > Is there any actually 64-bit distribution ?
>
> No.
> I'm now hacking day and night 64bit glibc, gcc changes, binutils changes and
> stuff like that. I have a 64bit shared libc running on my box (but not e.g.
> libm).
>
> > How can I contribute to help your developpement ?
>
> The best way if you want to help would be if you could torture your Ultra 1
> in 64bit mode to find out the two deadly hw bugs by which any user can lock
> up the machine in 64bit mode (Ultra II/IIi have only one of these), because
> unless the userland is protected against these hw bugs, it does not have
> much sense to play with 64bit userland. And we don't want to go the Solaris
> way (on Ultra 1 not allowing 64bit apps at all).
> If you'd like to do that, then lemme know.
>
> Cheers,
> Jakub
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> Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
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