RE: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-07 Thread Gary Parker
-Original Message- From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2004 21:51 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP? This is one of the rare events where userspace isn't the problem. 2.6.x needs somebody

RE: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-07 Thread Gary Parker
-Original Message- From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2004 12:29 To: Gary Parker Subject: Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP? Just a thought, but do people think it would be worthwhile getting some note about the instability

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 05 Jul 2004 16:12, Gary Parker wrote: Hi all, I've been successfully running a stock Woody install on an SS5 70MHz/128MB for a year or so now as my home firewall/router/mail server but felt I'd outgrown it's limited processing power (wanting to do more with it) and recently treated

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread JLB
: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP? Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org On Monday 05 Jul 2004 16:12, Gary Parker wrote: Hi all, I've been successfully running a stock Woody install on an SS5 70MHz/128MB for a year

RE: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread Gary Parker
-Original Message- From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2004 17:15 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP? As far as I'm aware, no kernel is stable with even a single 150MHz Ross CPU, let alone

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Mon, 2004-07-05 12:15:27 -0400, JLB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why wouldn't they? Don't all CPUs labeled as SPARC have to meet the SPARC specifications? It's not all *that* easy. There are optional parts which some CPU implement, others don't. IIRC there's an

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread Gary Parker
- Original Message - From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP? It shouldn't make any difference which distro you choose, it's the kernel which