[geeks] Sun Ultra 1

[Jochen Kunz]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:12:43 -0400
Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> I think that no Sun FDDI card will work under NetBSD.
SBus FDDI ist not supported under NetBSD.

> I hope that someday that gets fixed.
Most likely not. These cards where not made by Sun and the driver source
is (C) by that other company. So Sun can not release this code for free
and it seems that this other company is out of business / got bought by
an other company...

> NetBSD/sparc64 won't run 32bit executables if I understand correctly.
> This also is a large bummer about that port.
In theory sparc64 can run sparc binaries, but this may be broken. As
said, if you need a 32 bit environment use a 32 bit sparc64 kernel. (I
have to use a 32 bit system as I do cross compiling on that machine and
cross compiling LP64 => LP32 is a good way to trigger GCC bugs...)

> I generally find Solaris about as easy, as long as I'm using GCC
> rather than Sun CC.
Because the Sun compiler is even worse then GCC or because the code you
have to use is not written portable?
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       Jochen

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