> As such, the oldest/slowest sparc > machine that you can > have a reasonable expectation of support on is an > Ultra 2. [...] > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
And ... : The sole fact that the Ultra2 has a lower number (and earlier launch date), than - say - the U5/10, doesn't make it the "slowest machine". Everybody will acknowledge, that the slowest machine is the U5 270 or U10/300. The Ultra2 supports real (US_I) or US_II cpu's of up to 400MHz!!! Not simply the weak US_II-i. It also supports much more ram, ships with SCSI instead of the PIO-only cmd646 IDE controller and so forth (better mainboard). The U2 is a workhorse by default. The U5/10, on the other hand, needs to be really maxed out to become somehow usable at all (SCSI-controller and system disks or cmd649-add-in board, 440MHz II-i cpu, 1024 MB ram [may not physically fit into the U5 chassis], UPA graphics). So to asnwer Sun's request-for-feedback: Put in all support that is in the current OS/Net codebase, even if this increases the size of the ramdisk a bit (of course only in case you decide to build a LiveCD-microroot-ramdisk image, otherwise it doesn't matter at all). Few enough enthusiasts are using SPARC today, don't put in hurdles that prevent half of those few to use your Indiana-work. Martin Bochnig Natamar OpenSolaris http://www.martux.org/SPARC_distro_incl_Xorg7.2/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/FOX/bin-snapshots/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
