Subject: Re: sun4d support
To: berry <sberry@housebsd.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/02/2000 11:01:08
No, it uses one of a set of Viking or Hypersparc modules, just like Sun4m.


> 
> I've supported them, but never opened one up.  http://www.solarsys.com/
> seems to say they take different CPUs.  What's the difference,
> architecture-wise?
> 
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 07:30:39PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> >  >    and if hardware could be made available ... ?
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > then you need to find volunteers i guess :-)
> > 
> > Then sun4d itself isn't too strage, afaik.  I'm pretty sure it uses the
> > sun4m MMU, etc.  The first step would be to get an OpenProm dump of the
> > device tree just to get an idea what's there.
> > 
> > -- 
> >         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> > 
>