Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:44:03 -0500

In message <199812080703.SAA07457@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch
writes
:
+-----
| I don't know what to make of this statement. When I first read it, it
| sounded like they are helping port Linux to the UltraSparc. But
| UltraPenguin is already available! So what are they actually going to
| help with?
+--->8

It's available, but hardware support is still rather iffy in a number of
cases, especially with newer PCI-based machines. And 64-bit userspace isn't
even near ready yet.

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