[SunRescue] Re: Trolls and MP on rescued suns

[nick at snowman.net]

Just out of curiousity, how well do the new 2.4pre kernels run?  I havn't
gotten the procs for my sparc 20 yet.
	Nick

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rnovak at indyramp.com [mailto:rnovak at indyramp.com]
> > 
> > I'm actually pondering running SuSE 7.0 on a SS20 with a pair of
> > hypersparcs. The last time I tried Linux on MP was an older 
> > RedHat (5.2?)
> > on a dual-SM100 600MP, and it didn't work at all (at least 
> > not with a MP
> > kernel... was fairly solid with UP). 
> > 
> > Has anyone played with SuSE or newer Redhat on dual systems? 
> > I'll suggest
> > the 600MP with SM100 since those are often rescued (try to 
> > get this back
> > somewhere near the topic of the list), although if anything I'm more
> > likely to put the 600MPs out to be rescued by another good home soon.
> 
> Ah, the times before 2.2.x, when SPARC support sucked hard.  I don't think I
> had anything running a 2.0.x kernel MP that worked properly.  I'm running RH
> 6.2 (upgraded from 6.1, upgraded from 6.0, upgraded from 5.2), and it works
> just dandy.  xemacs and perl are the only real work that I do on there, but
> that's enough for now.  It's very stable, but I'll probably be putting
> Solaris back on there for a bit, at least until Anton finished adding DMA
> support to the esp SCSI driver.  My machine is an SS20, 128MB, dual 4GB
> disks, dual SM41s, CG6FB.  It's not fast, but I've let it churn on big
> compiles and RPM rebuilds for upwards of 10 hours, never saw anything
> flakey.  Oh, except that the DBRI module sometimes will load, other times
> not.  Sound doesn't concern me much.  Later,
> 	Greg
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