[rescue] E10k systems coming down in price

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2003.07.18 12:56 Frank Van Damme wrote:

> > NetBSD has a decent port for UltraSPARC, but I don't believe they
> > support the larger machines yet.
> Their smp support is "not there yet".
NetBSD has general SMP support for a long time. 1.6 supports SMP on
Alpha and VAX. -current has SMP for Alpha, VAX, i386, macppc, sparc and
amd64. It would get SMP for sparc64 very soon if someone with the right
skills has a bit time to work on it. But there would be an additional
problem: Support for the IO / bus architecture of the larger Sun
systems. E.g. sun4d is still unsupported. Not to speak about the E10K.
AFAIK the E10k is very different to any other Sun system.
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       Jochen

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