[SunRescue] fb behavior on SS20

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Tue Dec 28 22:12:21 CST 1999


On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> According the the un-official explanation I got from somebody, the SX
> whatever it is (not a frame buffer, that's for sure) build in to the
> memory chipset on the SS20.  I have no idea if it is/can be used without
> the FB-VSIMM, or with another FB device (like the cg6).  Anybody have a
> support contract on an SS20 so that they can ask Sun, or does somebody
> know?

The SX logic only works with VSIMMs, through the mbus.  There is no way to
get it to work with anything else.

-James









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