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From: Chris Newport <crn@netunix.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More than 4G of memory on Sparc32?
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:57:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FAB9BD.3060303@netunix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580709261221y47790f7en4726a74122d42191@mail.gmail.com>

Blue Swirl wrote:

>Some real Sparc32 machines could have >4G RAM (SC2000), maybe nobody
>tried to run Linux on those. The BSDs aren't any better.
>
>Will this ever be fixed? Anybody out there with a real machine and
>lots of memory?
>  
>
AFAIK the only Sparc32 machines which could support more than
4G was the SS2000 and a Cray box which were both sun4d and therefore not 
currently supported.

These machines are rather scarce and there seems to be little
prospect of the sun4d issues being resolved, even for the smaller
SS1000.

 



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26 19:21 More than 4G of memory on Sparc32? Blue Swirl
2007-09-26 19:57 ` Chris Newport [this message]
2007-09-26 20:52 ` David Miller
2007-09-28 14:53 ` Blue Swirl

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