Sun hardware questions...
Hello all, SunPCi PC co-processor card, in an Ultra 5 ? I don't know where to begin, and i don't even have one, but the idea sounds good :-) Is there some info docs anyhere on what and how this card can be put to work ? is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? Also, i understand an ultra 5 has a PCi bus, does this mean one could plug-in a usb card (and get it to work with linux), amongst other things. tia, Zak. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun hardware questions...
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:04:30 + Zak Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? It is just for Solaris. The card is driven by the Solaris kernel. Userland tools communicate with the kernel driver for the PCi card to load up it's RAM with a sub-OS to run, provide a disk image from which to boot, things like that. The PCi card provides virtual dummy devices for the x86 processor environment running on that card. So there is a pseudo VGA device et al., just the most simplest things necessary to boot up a real system and run applications, nothing more. Since this has become a non-Sparc/Linux discussion, please take it to the appropriate forum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun hardware questions...
SunPCi PC co-processor card, in an Ultra 5 ? I don't know where to begin, and i don't even have one, but the idea sounds good :-) Is there some info docs anyhere on what and how this card can be put to work ? is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/Linux-on-SunPCi-mini-Howto/ might answer some questions. In short it's a separte machine and you need the Sun utility to kick it into life / do some things. Not sure if the app will run in the Solaris emulation mode that Linux/SPARC has, I'd guess not as it probably requires some sort of kernel support. Also, i understand an ultra 5 has a PCi bus, does this mean one could plug-in a usb card (and get it to work with linux), amongst other things. Yes. I have a printer running off this set up at the moment. Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seasons change, things come to pass
