[geeks] Sun: SunFire V20z serial port processor

[Mouse]

[me, Mouse]

>>> I have a SunFire V20z, an x86 machine.  It works reasonably well
>>> for most of the purposes I want to put it to.
>>> [...is the SP's hardware environment known enough to run other
>>> software in place of Linux on it?...]

[Alex D]

>> mouse,

>> have you already looked through this document?

>> http://archives.retrobridge.org/sun/system-handbook/3.4/collections/TECHNICALINSTRUCTIONSURE/1-71-1018648.1-1.html 

No, that was not one I had found - thank you for the pointer!  Looking
at it now, though, it doesn't say anything I hadn't already learnt from
other sources.

>> resetting the SP to defaults only wipes out user and network settings so it$

That's what I'd gathered from elsewhere, and that's what I was planning
if I couldn't find more information otherwise.  But I was hoping to not
have to reverse-engineer anything.

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

> From memory, the SP on the V20z is a separate board that connects with somet$

I could, assuming of course that your memory is correct.  But what
would that give me?  The SP is not interfering with the main machine's
operation as far as I can tell; it just irritates me to have a computer
there that's got the potential to run a real OS of my choosing but
instead is stuck running a vendor-binary Linux.

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