Re: Linux on 4/690...

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:08:37 -0700


On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0700, Robert Dinse wrote:
> To the guy that asked about Linux on a 4/690, it works on a 4/670 which is
> the same system board, just smaller chassis without all the drive bays of a
> 690; however, the same spin_lock bug in 2.2.x that affects SS-10 also affected
> the 4/670 so it wasn't stable, but that only applies if you have multiple
> CPU's. If it's a single CPU box it will probably be fine.

Err, the 470 and 490 are completely different machines than the 670/690,
they aren't the CPUs - 490 is sun4, 690 is sun4m. Codenames were sunray
and galaxy for whatever that is worth.

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