[SunRescue] SS5 upgrade

[Mike Nicewonger]

The problem with the SS1000, SC2000 is the XD bus, not SMP. I guess there is
just not enough interest in these awesome old boxes.

Mike N

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> > jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu said:
> > > Perhaps that want us linux lovers should do.  Find a good coder and
> > > donate a SS1000 or SS2000 to him (or better yet, her).  Who are the
> > > main SMP people?
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> > For a long time, David Miller (now of RedHat) was the main guy, he is
still
> > involved.  I've offered to loan or donate older sparc hardware to
facilitate
> > filling gaps in architecture support in the past to no avail....  none
of the
> > developers seemed interested in the old stuff....  ultra or better.
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> > I hope else someone has better luck.
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> > AL