[SunRescue] Re: New SunBlade

[Sam Creasey]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Scott Norwood wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > You can add a USB PCI card to a Ultra10 and it will work, BTW.
> > Dunno about using a USB keyboard and mouse off it...
>
> Just curious:  Sun says that the new Blade box won't run Solaris 2.6 or
> 2.7 because neither of them supports the USB keyboard and mouse.  Fine,
> but is this an issue if a serial console is used instead?

It almost certainy won't run...  I managed to get my hands on a Birdsnext
board (pretty damn similar to the NetraX1 and the SB100), and my efforts
to get linux to boot on it have gone rather poorly....

Seems Sun kicked over to a new PCI host bridge which is incompatible with
the older APB ones...   (I can probe it as far as the host bridge, but
can't make it to the PCI buses with no docs whatsoever).

And that's ignoring other factors, like the fact that they want ISA space
(ISA!!) mapped in by the kernel to support the cheapo PC-style onboard
devices the new (cheaper) sun board are blessed with...

Though, all the same, I'd prefer the 500mhz processor in the new board as
my build machine for work over the 300mhz AXe's we're using now...

-- Sam

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kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to
repetitive music.
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