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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Ilya Volynets <ilya@theIlya.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot linux on an O2 r5k ?
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:13:53PM -0700, Ilya Volynets wrote:

> I don't know if this discussion should be started again, but I can't
> stop myself from saing that having Linux supporting SGI MIPS
> machines as well as it does SPARC64 machines would be very pleasant
> thing to have. Everyone knows that Slowlaris is rock-solid OS, but I am
> yet to see a person that doesn't like Linux on SUN machines.

Talk to sun4c users.  The performance suck rocks and in general at time
the maintenance of the 32-bit Sparc kernel left alot of desires open.

  Ralf