[SunRescue] Hardware reference re-structuring ideas.

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Here's idea number 1, please tell me why I shouldn't do it this way (or
> should).  Break it down into a section on the different archs.  So, 1
> section for Sun2, one for Sun3, one for Sun4, one for Sun4m, one for
> Sun4c, one for Sun4u (Are there more that I've forgotten?).  I see some

sun4e, sun4d, sun4d6.  There's also a sun3/sun3x split but it's probably
less important, all of the sun3's should be lumped together.

> problems with this layout, but it is an option.  
> Idea number 2 would be to break the machines and board down into
> different interfaces.  There could be an SBUS section, a VME section,
> and a PCI section.  This idea sounds a lot more limiting at the top, but
> under each of those sections, I could have a sub-section for each arch.  

Where do beasts like the 4/600 end up?  I'd rather have sections by karch
and order them by bus interfaces (in the VME/sbus/PCI order this should
keep them in date order as well).  There are also CPCI systems out there
such as the Netra T1.

-James