From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:05:38 -0700 From: Christopher Nielsen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching Message-ID: <20051012000538.GF5776@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <200510101633.aa68635@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99ef6db2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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