Well, if one were sufficiently motivated, I'm sure that Linux could be made to
work on the Sequent quads/squads even with the console/MDC subsystem in place.
Of course it makes no sense to do so, at least on the high-end hardware. You
are paying extra money for the NUMA capabilities engineered into the quad
which you cannot take advantage of. The new NUMA-Q 1000 midrange systems
however are a much more interesting prospect from this point of view. I'm not
aware of any Sequent plans to offer Linux, but obviously that may change based
on customer demand. There are certainly plenty of in-house users :-)
As to the older hardware, as Jan-Simon says, it's not obvious that it's worth
the effort to port. All the base hardware is custom stuff and the few cards
that aren't are things like the VME comms cards. It would be a major effort to
port. It *might* be worth it if it were done to improve the high-end SMP
scalability of Linux on say a 16+ processor system.
t
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> > the se30 is not a pc derived architecture. you would
> > definitely need to re-implement all the hardware
> > device drivers.
> >
> > i doubt sequent would be interested in a linux port for
> > obsolete hardware. i imagine that linux will run pretty-much
> > out of the box on the current numa-q boxes (at least for
> > a single quad configuration :-) since they are basically
> > intel-mps compliant.
> >
> > timw care to comment?
>
> You are correct in assuming that Linux will run on the current NUMA-Q
> boxes... The MDC (the board that plugs into a PC for control) needs to be
> replaced by a switch which will act as a power switch and reset, but other
> than that the machine will run quite nicely with Linux. We even have one in
> a
> lab here...
>
> TTFN,
> -dath
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