From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 23:32:30 -0500 From: David Hogan dhog@cs.su.oz.au Subject: sparc fileservers Topicbox-Message-UUID: fdfc19b2-eac7-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19931102043230.aFxYE6z9Sx6gAWzQRN7yCNzlYMDouLuh0KCQl5nBKh4@z> > From: Arnold Robbins > 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.