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From: David Hogan dhog@cs.su.oz.au
Subject: sparc fileservers
Date: Mon,  1 Nov 1993 23:32:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19931102043230.aFxYE6z9Sx6gAWzQRN7yCNzlYMDouLuh0KCQl5nBKh4@z> (raw)

> From:	Arnold Robbins <arnold@cc.gatech.edu>
> To:	9fans@cse.psu.edu
> 
> Heck, can any of the plan 9 stuff run on the newer sparcs like the LX,
> or the big MPs like the 690 or sparc center 1000 and 2000?  (Junk Solaris
> for a real OS... :-)

Not without rewriting mmu.c.  I understand that the mmu in the
newer sparcs is based on the Sparc Reference mmu, whereas the
mmu in the older sparcs is a lot closer to the Sun 3 mmu.  I've
also heard that the dma controller is different.




             reply	other threads:[~1993-11-02  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-11-02  4:32 David [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-11-03  7:28 mike
1993-11-02  4:02 Scott
1993-11-01 23:27 Mike
1993-11-01 22:56 Scott
1993-11-01 22:06 Dean
1993-11-01 19:36 Jim
1993-11-01 19:33 Arnold
1993-11-01 19:10 Scott

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