[rescue] Re: Linux on SS1000 (was SS1000)

[John Ruschmeyer]

> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:38:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt at csh.rit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Linux on SS1000 (was SS1000)
>
> On 9 Dec 2002, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>
> > Well, Aurora doesn't have a working sun4 to test on, and sun4 requires a
> > special kernel, so we haven't implemented support for it. We're
> > currently supporting sun4c, sun4m, and sun4u in Aurora with a 2.4
> > kernel.
>
> sun4c?  YAY!
>
> Recently sun4c machines have been becoming less wanted in free software
> circles...  even NetBSD having a big problem with some of the sun4c's
> (those without hw cache flush).  You have made me happy =)

But how's the memory management performance on a sun4c under 2.4? I thought
I recall it being bad compared to NetBSD, at least under 2.2 kernels.

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