[geeks] Okay, I relent.

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Sun Apr 21 03:40:24 CDT 2002


On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 18:24, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Anybody know if Debian/SPARC does SMP?  and where I can find an .iso?

I just installed Debian on my 670mp a week ago (to the day).  it does
SMP

loveboat:~# uname -a
Linux loveboat 2.4.18 #2 SMP Sat Apr 13 17:26:38 EST 2002 sparc unknown
loveboat:~# 

Yeah, you need to download the newest kernel source, and compile it, but
it works quite nicely :)

loveboat:~# dmesg|more
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2

--snip--

Found CPU 0 <node=ffd79140,mid=8>
Found CPU 1 <node=ffd79380,mid=9>
Found CPU 2 <node=ffd795c0,mid=10>
Found CPU 3 <node=ffd79800,mid=11>

Very nice :)

but then, i've been a linux fool for years....

	-Dan Sikorski



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