On 8/25/05, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:02 pm, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > Ok... you're funny - calling a Primepower 200 a laptop... rotf... :-)
> > The box I am complaining about is a SPARC64 machine...
>
> Oh, ok...the problem might be that extra drivers and/or code could be needed.
> Fujitsu is a SPARC HardWare Partner (SHWP), and there are pieces added to a
> stock distribution which Fujitsu puts there. OpenSolaris will not have those
> pieces.
>
> You should contact Fujitsu to ask if they'll make those pieces available,
Aren't Sun+Fujitsu now friends and share everything up to CPU development?
>but
> you can get them from S10 GA most likely.
GA = ?
> I'm not sure what advantage there would be in running OpenSolaris on that type
> of hardware when you have support from Fujitsu, so I'm rollin' on the floor
> with you on that one...<LOL!>
Well, my use would be kernel development since this box is "free"
right now and provides a better (faster!) alternative compared to the
old Ultra1/Ultra5 machines (Ultra1 does not boot either btw).
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