* Ari Heitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001107 13:25]: > The TurboSPARC (the 170 MHz 32bit SPARC, iirc made by Toshiba) certainly is. I > remember a couple of very long discussions about this chip, both here and i > think on the sparcbook lists.
Fujitsu. :) > I can report at the least that sun4c's (as someone mentioned iirc) > have no significant problems, i've been using them most of the way > thru the 2.2 series (in fact i was using them even before that, i > think a few of the 2.0 kernels were quirky on them). I think the SS170 > is a sun4m (someone wanna back me up or cut me down on that? it's not > a sun4d i'm pretty sure ...) anyhow. And those work dandy. Yeah, it's a sun4m... the thing is, there's a huge speed diffence between any sun4c and an ss5/170... unfortunately, I wouldn't really recommend either. > Have to admit I haven't tried 2.2.17 on my IPX, just no inclination > to. I guess I should but I need my CVS/web stuff all running :) Yeah, but 2.4.x is currently not working with sun4c's... so currently, 2.2.x is the highest you can go. The other thing worth nothing about the SS5/170 is that you can cause a hard lockup with a userspace app on it... the same app has no effect on any other SPARC machine (not even other SS5s). Basically, it's a CPU bug... and where there's one so bad, there's probably others. :(
