> > I was under the impression that sun4d was supported undeer the 2.2 > > series but had been broken (and not fixed) under 2.4. I also thought > > all sun4d boxen were SMP. > Well, you can boot a SMP box and use only one CPU. According to what > I've heard about sun4d, linux 2.2.x does not boot if SMP is enabled. > I've to admit that I played only a few hours with a sun4d box by myself > but the guy who tried is not a newby and as I said he spent a lot of > time on this issue. Fair enough. I only got as far as playing with the Debian 2.4 kernels and finding out that the ones labeled sun4cdm weren't quite. I wish I had the time to devote to this problem but alas at the moment I haven't. As I see it it's only really kernel hacking that needs to be done and most of the drivers, etc. are already done.
> > > Afaik solaris is the only OS out there with sun4d SMP support. > > NetBSD? I can't see anything about sun4d on their site > Iirc NetBSD does not even boot on sun4d (yes there is at least *ONE* > architecture that they do not support). It was just a thought. I don't think they support the original (HAL) sparc64 either. Another machine I'd love toget ahold of. Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"
