Re: Linux on a SparcServer 4/490?
Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 07:06:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > I recently obtained a Sun SparcServer 4/490. I suspect Linux won't
> > boot on this monster? Will it ever?
> >
> > It should boot and work just fine. There is no support for VME
> > devices yet, but SBUS device support is there.
>
> Hey Dave he said 4/490 not 4/690 :)
>
> 4/490 is sun4 architecture and at the moment only the 4/300 series works.
> If the sun3 people merge in their VME SCSI stuff then all that is needed is
> to support the worlds worst mmu.
Don't be silly- "world's cheapest" is a better term- where else can you do
an MMU and virtual address indexed cache for a couple of SRAMs and
comparators?
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