Re: debian linux on primepower (sun4us)
On Wed, Sep 18, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Helmut Koeberle wrote: Hi, is there a chance to run linux on a primepower from fujitsu siemens computers. The architecture is called sun4us, the processors are sparc64-GP (equivalent to sparc v9). We'd like to buy such a machine. If fujitsu were willing to release specs to their machines, it would be possible. That's not the case, so sparc64 will not run on it (this isn't specific to Debian, this is Linux in general). The fujitsu developers have a linux kernel running on their sparc64-GP, all they need to do is to make their patches public. -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/[EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AGDeutschherrnstr. 15-19D-90429 Nuernberg Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
debian linux on primepower (sun4us)
Hi, is there a chance to run linux on a primepower from fujitsu siemens computers. The architecture is called sun4us, the processors are sparc64-GP (equivalent to sparc v9). We'd like to buy such a machine. Regards -- Helmut Koeberle Tel. :+49-(0)7541-585-1005 Service DirectorFax :+49-(0)7541-585-2005 BYTEC GmbH mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hermann-Metzger-Str.7 http://www.bytec.de 88045 Friedrichshafen
Re: debian linux on primepower (sun4us)
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Helmut Koeberle wrote: Hi, is there a chance to run linux on a primepower from fujitsu siemens computers. The architecture is called sun4us, the processors are sparc64-GP (equivalent to sparc v9). We'd like to buy such a machine. If fujitsu were willing to release specs to their machines, it would be possible. That's not the case, so sparc64 will not run on it (this isn't specific to Debian, this is Linux in general). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
