[rescue] Sparc Station 1+

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 13:47:37 (+0200), Jochen Kunz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sparc Station 1+

BTW, your MUA is having problems -- it's generating broken MIME headers.
You might want to try setting your charset explicitly.


> And: Don't put that PeeCee penguin OS on this nice machine. See
> http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/faq.html#sparclinux-sun4c

I agree, "but"....

Don't try to run NetBSD-current or NetBSD-1.6 on any sun4c machine
without hardware cache flush assist.  That includes the IPC, SS1, SS1+
and some others.  There's a bug in the context switching somewhere that
eventually corrupts any large and/or long-running program, such as GCC
(you can't compile a kernel), or the Xserver, etc.  Supposedly 1.5.x
still works well enough, but until/unless this cache bug is fixed then
NetBSD on these really old sparcs is getting stuck in the dust.

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