Hi,

I use assorted versions of NetBSD on a few different sparc 20s,
all of which have at different times had from 1 to 4 hypersparcs
and, when I want to slow them down, and old supersparc as well,
plugged in.

I've never had any problems with any combo, except, I can't
seem to get a build.sh release to run all the way through
when I tell it to optimize for the hypersparc.  This isn't a big
issue though.

I've done some playing around with integer intensive programs built
with/and without the -mcpu=hypersparc option and I don't see any
huge gains with it.

A 4 cpu sparc20 is quite a nice box.  I'd imagine that a sparc 10
would be similiar, but, as others have pointed out, watch the heat.

cheers

bruce


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:25:36AM -0800, Ted Havelka wrote:
> 
> Hello NetBSD community,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> 
> - Ted
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