From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Finnegan Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:50:55 +0000 Subject: Re: sparc32 status Message-Id: <200407231650.55097.pat@computer-refuge.org> List-Id: References: <20040713160257.GA8148@foobazco.org> In-Reply-To: <20040713160257.GA8148@foobazco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 13 July 2004 17:38, C.Newport wrote: > Sun4d is not a question of "nobody cares", the point is that without > SMP it is rather pointless. AIUI, SMP has never worked because nobody > knew how to initialise the bus handling correctly due to a lack of > documentation. This is why I tracked down the man in Sun who knows > how it works. Once the bus handling issues are understood the rest > should be almost identical to Sun4m. Umm, my SC2000E identifies, and I'm pretty sure does SMP with all of the processors it has in it... it'd be nice if that functionality was at least brought to 2.4, though 2.6 seems like a better idea at this point. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org