On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:40:19PM +0000, Martin wrote: > You might want to check the list archives as this has come up several > times before and was covered in more detail. The SPARCServer 1000(E) > and 2000(E) are a slightly different architecture (sun4d IIRC based on > sun4m) and have some clever stuff that connects the CPUs together. Back > in kernel 2.2 there was some support for these machines but not SMP > (althought someone here said they knew of someone who had started work > on it) but it was dropped due to lack of support in >= 2.4. This is the > closest any free *NIX has got to supporting them.
Actually SMP was mostly working in 2.2 for sun4d, but it wasn't stable. No real issues with UP on a sparccenter 2000. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni.