[SunRescue] SS2 memory

Scott Newell rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Mar 7 11:06:29 CST 2001


>> Another wrinkle is that I'm running Linux on this box, so need the
>> expansion boards to be supported.  Anyone know whether they are?
>
>My impression on these is that they don't need any special "support"
>in the OS.  As the sun4c machines actually use the Sbus for memory
>access, a Sbus memory card is probably fairly straightforward =)

Correct.  I've got one (32 MB, for a total of 96MB) in my ss2 running
OpenBSD.  It just works.


While we're at it, what's the going rate for these sbus mem boards, and the
PowerUp chip?  More than I'd want to give, I'm sure!  :-)


newell





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