-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Steven,
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Steven Wilcoxon wrote: > > > > Recently, however, we've been offered an Ultra Enterprise 5000. > > > > (..) Could such a dragon run Linux? > > > > > > If it helps any, I'm running a 14 cpu E4500 with SCSI drives attach under > > > 2.4.21. I had very few problems getting it up and running with Debian > > > Woody (r1) with a Sun keyboard & VGA multi-sync monitor attached. Once I > > > had everything setup, I switched to serial. > > > > Does Linux 2.4.21 fully utilize all 14 cpu's? > > All 14 CPU's are running happily. you should see how fast the kernel compile > with -j14. If I remember correctly, I went SMP initially with the 2.4.18-SMP > kernel from Debian. But, I wanted some of the improvements in the newer > kernel and I installed devfs as well. Cool! :) Wow, Linux has truly come a long way. It will be interesting to compare the performance of 2.6 final to Solaris 9 :) > > I'll have to dive into SOC+ stuff too, I guess... :) > > There are reports that the SOC+ code got broken, but it could be that the > microcode from Solaris just wasn't installed correctly. Even if the SOC+ > driver does work correctly, you still need to boot from SCSI according to old > docs. I guess there isn't any new documentation on this? I can only find old posts.. [1] Anyway, thanks for your help! I'll try to return to this list when I have actually installed the beast :) Regards, Pieter-Paul [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200201/msg00121.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (SunOS) iD8DBQE/isnxEjwC+DbpTB4RAlXKAJwMI7puDgKmtZoSTiCrj6+y3+D+yQCdGlxH Rs4o2CynSSAe6ZQ//h69THk= =zwZr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
