On Wed, Sep 18, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Helmut Koeberle wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a chance to run linux on a primepower from fujitsu siemens > > computers. > > The architecture is called sun4us, the processors are sparc64-GP > > (equivalent to sparc v9). > > > > We'd like to buy such a machine. > > If fujitsu were willing to release specs to their machines, it would be > possible. That's not the case, so sparc64 will not run on it (this isn't > specific to Debian, this is Linux in general).
The fujitsu developers have a linux kernel running on their sparc64-GP, all they need to do is to make their patches public. -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
