> Martin> I was under the impression that sun4d was supported undeer > Martin> the 2.2 series but had been broken (and not fixed) under > Martin> 2.4. > i have read that elsewhere too. I belive it was due to a lack of maintainers with adequate hardware.
> Martin> I also thought all sun4d boxen were SMP. > so far as i am aware (and i'm no Sun expert), the only sun4d machines > were the SPARCservers 1000, 1000e, 2000 and 2000e(?), AFAIK yes. > all of which i > believe are SMP capable. the 1000e (which i have) takes up to 4 > motherboards on a common backplane, each of which has two m-bus slots > for a maximum of 8 cpus. Although I don't know if the rumours about dual processor mbus cards can be used with these... > i imagine it would run with one CPU, but where's the fun in that? :-) Quite! > Martin> NetBSD? I can't see anything about sun4d on their site but > Martin> they seem to support some of the SPARCbooks and IIRC some of > Martin> them were sun4e for which support is even rarer... > their mailing lists seem to point in this direction :-) Oh. 'twas justa thought - what with their claims about maximum portability et al. > Martin> If you haven't asked already then these people > Martin> http://www.sunhelp.org/lists.php may well be able to shed > Martin> some light on the situation. > thanks. i'll chase that up. These peoepl really are experts; the list is quite high traffic but they *really* know their hardware. > Martin> I have a 2 CPU SS1000E on the desk next to me and would > Martin> dearly love to get it running something more up to date and > Martin> useable than the current broken version of Solaris on it - > Martin> please do let me / us know if you find anything. > will do. Thanks. Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"
