[rescue] howto make multiple main boards work on a Sun Sparc 670/MP

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 15 12:19:58 CDT 2001


On June 15, James Sharp wrote:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/alpha.html
> >
> > AFAIK freebsd/alpha is release/production quality.
> 
> Yeah, it is.  I'm running it on a handful of Alphaserver DS-10s (Mmmmmm
> 466Mhz 21264s with 2GB of RAM.  *drooooool*).  I've yet to run into
> anything that would trip up the mahine or make it do funny things.
> 
> I haven't done any benchmarking tests of FreeBSD/alpha versus
> NetBSD/alpha, though.  Maybe I'll do that when I get bored or have a
> really bad case of apathy toward Cidera & don't feel like doing anything
> productive.

  They've fixed it since I left?  In January those machines would run
in short spurts between exploding for no apparent reason.

     -Dave McGuire



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