From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:05:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051012000538.GF5776@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0510101250w1094d504q1e2ae53f02e98a50@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> > I am thinking of buying a 12-cpu ultrsparcII unit (E4500) for a
> > couple of scientific computing projects I am working on. My OS
> > choices seem to be
> > 1) Solaris 8, 9, or 10
> > 2) NetBSD
> > 3) Plan9
>
> There was a Sparc kernel once, and some people (Chris Collins?)
> have been reviving it, but I don't know that I'd want to depend on
> it being ready in time to use for your app. Perhaps Chris will
> speak up.
There was also a sparc64 kernel that Tim Newsham had ported.
I don't know the status or if anyone is maintaining it, but I
do know from my conversations with Tim that it doesn't support
SMP. There was a chance that I was going to acquire an E420R
and work on SMP support, but that didn't work out.
Chris
--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-12 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 15:33 John Stalker
2005-10-10 19:44 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-10-10 19:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-11 8:19 ` John Stalker
2005-10-11 13:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-11 15:45 ` John Stalker
2005-10-11 23:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-12 0:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-12 1:41 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-12 0:05 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
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