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From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Subject: Re: sun4m
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In article <4odljp$b3i@hole.sdsu.edu>, Larry Riedel
(larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu) wrote:

> I haven't seen anyone ask this here for a while.
> 
> How is the progress on the sun4m version of netbsd?

According to a recent message on port-sparc, NetBSD-current/sparc (and
1.2 when it is released) runs on 4/15s, 4/30s, (most) S10s and S20s, but
not quite on S4/S5s yet, due to "cache peculiarities". No 4/600 support
or SMP support (yet). Framebuffer support is still somewhat patchy, I
think.

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Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,        <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
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