On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:25:36AM -0800, Ted Havelka wrote:
> Are there any or many issues I should prepare for as I go to install
> NetBSD from CD onto a four-processor, Sparc 10, which has Ross processors
> installed?

Your system should work just fine, but for more than one CPU to be
supported you'll need to install the GENERIC.MP kernel (or build your own
with it as a starting point).

> Will the pre-compiled binaries typically function, or will I want or need
> to take some additional steps in terms of configuring and building the
> kernel and other software parts of the system?

The pkgsrc binary packages for NetBSD/sparc are built with no optimizations
for your HyperSPARC CPUs, but they will work fine. If you believe that
tuning for your CPU can make a noticeable difference, perhaps install
devel/cpuflags and rebuild the packages you're going to use from source
(cpuflags will add -mcpu=hypersparc to your compiler options, thereby
building packages optimized for the HyperSPARC).

BTW, make sure you take heed of the heat warnings at
http://mbus.sunhelp.org/systems/sun/ss10.htm. SS10s can get hot,
particularly in multi-CPU configurations

-mj
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