[SunRescue] SparcServer 670/MP O.S. Options / VME Support?

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> Mike wrote:
> 
> :I can confirm that Solaris 7 works on Sun4c (IPX and SS2 at home).
> 
> *nod* I've seen that, too *shudder*
> 
> :I also heard that there was a "hack" to run Solaris 8 on these machines but
> :I don't know if that's true or not.  Can anybody confirm that?
> 
> The hack I know of (and I can't reference the website, it's the one in
> .au which has all the PROM images and such) also has a hack for getting 
> 2.6 and 7 to run on VME-based boxes like the 4/670, etc. 2.6 is going to 
> be supported for a lot longer than 2.5.1 from Sun's perspective (based on
> all the info I can acknolwedge.)  If there is a hack to get 8 running on
> sun4c it would be similar, but I think they just dropped all the sun4c
> platform code from the OS (just a hunch, I could be quite wrong.)

All sun4c code was removed after Solaris 7.  Getting 8 to work would be
essentially impossible.

sun4d will die in the next rev but sun4m will probably stick around until
at least 2003 (5 years since Sun shipped their last 4m boxes).

-James