SunPC is an sbus 486 (and others, I suppose) board, while SunPCi is a
somewhat self-contained PC subsystem on a PCI card.  Two entirely
different creatures.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:47:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG
> To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
> Cc: NetBSD/Sparc Mailing list <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: SunPC support?
> 
> On 18-Sep-00 at 06:29, Todd Vierling (tv@wasabisystems.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> > :      Sorry - I switched between the software and board in my post -
> > :      I was thinking more about getting the SunPC hardware board
> > :      running with NetBSD on the host system, and then trying to get
> > :      the board to run Windows or NetBSD.
> > 
> > This requires kernel support.  The SunPC board, while bearing a processor
> > and BIOS, does not have any memory (it shares the Sun memory bus), and must
> > be configured by the kernel, providing a /dev node for the userland
> > software to use.
> 
> The SunPCi board does have its own memory - two standard SIMM slots.
> The base configuration comes with 64Mb.
> 
> Given the hardware specs, it shouldn't be difficult to make this board
> work in any PCI based system; or to make it support non-M$ operating
> systems.
> 
> 
> 
> -Pat
> 

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