[rescue] Sunshack and Sun stuff to giveaway

[Francois Dion]

On 10/29/07, Phil Brutsche <phil at tux.obix.com> wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
> >> There are also hardware bugs in the older CPUs.  For example, the Sun
> >> I sent to you has a CPU bug that will bring the machine down hard
> >> from userland with a 1 instruction assembly program.
> >
> > !!  Where can I find out more?
>
> Indeed, it only affected UltraSPARC1 processors in Ultra 1s and Ultra
> 2s, and is only a problem when:
>  * the CPU is <= 200MHz
>  * the OS is running 64-bit mode
>
> It's one of the reasons Solaris 10 won't run on machines equipped with
> US-1 CPUs.
>
> References:
>
> http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1205884.html
> http://www.slacksite.com/technotes/64bitUltra1.html
> http://seclists.org/bugtraq/1999/Dec/0162.html


BTW, slightly related subject, if you want solaris 10+ functionality
under older sparc boxes, Martux works with US-1:

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/martux/marTux_0.2/