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I use to have a Sun Blade2000 Workstation, I believe mine was a 900MHZ model. |
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I concur that it's pretty stable with Gentoo and Sparc64. |
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I had two issues with it: |
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1. The QLogic QLA2000 controller. |
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Namely because you have to build the initrd disk image to load before you can |
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get to the hard drive, |
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at least post 2.6.16 or 2.6.18. May be they corrected that again; not sure. |
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(Issue was a firmware |
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blob was needed; I somewhere 2.6.16-18 they stopped letting you build the blob |
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into the kernel, |
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thus the initrd was then required and not easy to get setup either.) |
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2. The NIC, at least when I ran it several years back, didn't auto-sense |
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properly. |
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However, I can't say if either of those are still issues or not since I am no |
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longer at the company |
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where I had that box, so I don't run the Sparc64 one any more. It'd be great to |
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know if those |
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issues were resolved as I do know of another equivalent box that was running |
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into those same |
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issues, and the maintainers aren't as savvy - they may not be using it now as a |
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result. So it'd |
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be nice to get them going on it again. |
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Ben |
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----- Original Message ---- |
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> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@××××××××××.uk> |
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> To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o |
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> Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 4:45:12 PM |
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> Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Linux/SPARC64 Hardware Compatibility List |
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> |
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> Four years ago I sent in an email with my box's details. This time I |
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> have two new boxes; |
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> |
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> Model - Ultra 60 |
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> Kernel - 2.6.34-gentoo-r11 |
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> Stability - Excellent |
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> OBP - 3.31 |
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> Net - Yes (HME) |
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> Sound - Yes (CS4321) |
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> Framebuffer - sunffb |
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> Submitter - alexbuell |
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> Comments - Dual 360MHz processors, 2GB RAM, 2 x 36GB SCSI SCA disks. |
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> Console and X11 working well. Minor problems with GNOME/Firefox need |
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> resolving. |
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> |
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> Model - Sun Blade 2000 |
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> Kernel - 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 |
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> Stability - Excellent |
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> OBP - 4.16.4 |
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> Sound - Yes (can't remember which chipset) |
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> Framebuffer - xvr500 |
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> Submitter - alexbuell |
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> Comments - Dual 1.2GHz processors, 4GB RAM, 2 x 73GB FC-AL disks. |
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> Console working well, need X11 fbdev although display looks corrupted, |
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> X11 still works fine. As above, minor problems with GNOME/Firefox needs |
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> sorting although I intend to help fix those problems. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Alex |
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> -- |
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> Tactical Nuclear Kittens |
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