Subject: Re: NetBSD/sparc on SS10/412, anyone?
To: Riccardo Pizzi <pizzi@iper.net>
From: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/13/1996 09:28:55
> I am about to receive a Sparc 10/412 (two SM41 processors) and would like
> to install NetBSD on it.
> Will NetBSD/sparc run on this machine (it has sun4m arch) and if yes,
> will it make use of both processors?
At this point, it certainly will *not* use both processors--it should boot on
two, but it will only _use_ one.
Also, I'm not sure what a SM41 processor is. NetBSD/sparc only supports
SuperSPARC-style processors on the SS10/SS20; if the SM41 is HyperSPARC-based,
it won't work.
--Aaron