Subject: RE: Utra 2 compatibility
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Olivier Cherrier <Olivier.Cherrier@cediti.be>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/30/2002 09:44:01
OK. Many thanks for this reply.
Just another point: Is there SMP support for this architecture?
(There are 2 x 170 MHz CPU)
Thanks.
Greetings.
oc
>| I would like to recycle an Sun Ultra 2 box to *BSD.
>| The hardware is maybe a little 'special'; see below the
>| output of the boot PROM:
>| Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 x Ultra SPARC 168 MHz)
>| 256 MB memory
>| The commercial model is "Sun MediaCenter", so it is not
>| a classic Ultra 2.
>|
>| Does NetBSD can run on this machine using 1 or 2 CPU?
>| If not, anyone can advise me on another OS (not Solaris)?
>
>As far as I remember the MediaCenter machines were just
>Ultra 2s with a custom tuned kernel and some special SCSI
>hardware. I think -current will probably work, if the
>SCSI hardware isn't too special.
>
>Eduardo
>