[rescue] Re: 670MP windfall in the surplus diving frenzy today.....

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On the other hand, NetBSD does have some SMP support, and they desperately
need volunteers to help with it...

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Robert Novak wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dan Debertin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> > 
> > > 4.  What SunOS levels will run on it, although I will probably load
> > >     up NetBSD if possible.
> > 
> > Up to Solaris 2.5.1. NetBSD runs, but there's no support for SMP, or for
> > the VME bus. 
> 
> Allegedly Solaris 2.6 and 7 (and even 8?) can be hacked to run, but not
> with SM100 modules (see
> http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2000-April/005324.html and James's
> comments). Can also patch up SunOS 4.1.4 from what I'm told. If you want
> SMP and non-Solaris, Linux is going to be your best bet. Don't know how
> much any of the freebies support VME.
> 
> --Rob
> 
> Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com * indyramp.com/~rnovak
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