Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Re: UltraSparc III (fwd)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:07:44
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0508100059440.18290@terciopelo.krait.us
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4 For your enlightenment in case you don't subscribe to the debian sparc
5 list. (SB1000(2x900) with kernel-2.6.13-rc4 runs very well, by the way.)
6
7 Regards,
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9 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
10 Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc, devrel)
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13 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:26:14 +1000
14 From: Jon Biddell <jon@××××××××××××.au>
15 To: David S. Miller <davem@××××××.com>
16 Cc: debian-sparc@××××××××××××.org
17 Subject: Re: UltraSparc III
18 Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:21:00 -0500 (CDT)
19 Resent-From: debian-sparc@××××××××××××.org
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21 David S. Miller wrote:
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23 >From: Jon Biddell <jon@××××××××××××.au>
24 >Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:59:28 +1000
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27 >
28 >>Any progress on UltraSparc III support yet, or is it still a pain in the
29 >>ass getting info out of SUN ?
30 >>
31 >>
32 >
33 >Linux has supported the UltraSPARC-III since I got my first
34 >SunBlade1000 system 3 or 4 years ago.
35 >
36 >
37 I thought, from comments by others in this group, that Ultra III support
38 was still proving difficult as SUN were reluctant to release information
39 abou t their "open" processor ?
40
41 I know I keep getting the dreaded "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" error when
42 I boot from the debian installer CD (SILO 1.49 I believe), but booting
43 from a Gentoo CD with the same version of SILO works fine...
44
45 Jon
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