Subject: Re: problems running NetBSD on 4m
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/05/1997 13:36:59
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:26:28 -0600 (CST)
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> Because a sparc 2's disk will likely have a 4c boot program/kernel/whatever,
> I believe they are different from the 4m.
...the sun4c and sun4m boot programs are the same... Indeed, NetBSD/sparc
has a completely unified boot program now :-)
I'm guessing that it's cache lossaga that's causing this problem. I'll
let Aaron or Paul comment further (since they're the real experts :-),
but that's my guess...
> (In some cases. I dunno how probable it would be to have a multi-type
> SPARC kernel.)
NetBSD/sparc has always had a unified kernel. We're just better than
Sun in that regard, I guess :-)
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