Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:20:16PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Collins M. Ben wrote: That is incorrect, slink supports UltraSPARC, and as does potato. That is odd, I was told that there was only a SPARC port and that an UltraSPARC (64-bit) port was in its infancy. That came from this list maybe a month ago. The current sparc port runs on UltraSPARC's. That's not to say that it is a 64bit user space. It is only a 32 bit user space, but runs none the less. This is the same as the current UltraPenguin and RedHat 6.0. There are no native 64bit sparc distributions yet (that was the discussion you caught). -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:36:10PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: The current sparc port runs on UltraSPARC's. That's not to say that it is a 64bit user space. It is only a 32 bit user space, but runs none the less. This is the same as the current UltraPenguin and RedHat 6.0. There are no native 64bit sparc distributions yet (that was the discussion you caught). This is from the UltraPenguin web page: UltraLinux is a fast 64bit free operating system, which supports up to 1TB of physical and another 1TB of IO memory, fully supports Linux/Sparc 32bit binaries plus will soon support 64bit UltraLinux ELF binaries. It uses the Visual Instruction Set for high bandwidth operations, even older 32-bit applications take advantage of this increased performance if they are dynamically linked. The 64-bit userland for UltraPenguin is half done, developers have initial statically linked ELF 64-bit binaries working. We will announce seperately the availability of this so others can experiment with it and help us out, so please be patient. SO it looks like it is a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit user space. Which is exactly what Booting the sun4u kernel from the slink bootdisk will do. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Sparc Ultra5 (170)
I posted this question to the Sparc list but didn't get a reply so I'm trying it here. I have an Ultra5 that I would like to install on. The installation pages make no mention of this, or any other machine being supported. I am curious because the RedHat installation manual specifically states that the Ultra5 is unsupported. I have also heard that this is a kernel problem and the kernels after 2.2.5 *do* support this machine. Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. TIA. -Ian __ Ian K. Setford PGP 2.6.3 1024/79D33BED 1999/05/10 Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 52 D2 8D ED B7 78 4F D8 A0 1F 8C 36 58 7C D4 AA
Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:42:09AM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I posted this question to the Sparc list but didn't get a reply so I'm trying it here. I have an Ultra5 that I would like to install on. The installation pages make no mention of this, or any other machine being supported. I am curious because the RedHat installation manual specifically states that the Ultra5 is unsupported. I have also heard that this is a kernel problem and the kernels after 2.2.5 *do* support this machine. Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. We have users and developers running stock slink on Ultra1's Ultra30's and I believe an Ultra5. The boot disks to use are the 2.2.1-sun4u, I'm pretty sure you will have no problems.
Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. Last I heard, Debian does not support the UltraSPARC processor yet. That is incorrect, slink supports UltraSPARC, and as does potato.
