Linux on 4/690...
Robert Dinse (nanook@eskimo.com)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu wrote:
>
> From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:08:37 -0700
> Subject: Re: Linux on 4/690...
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0700, Robert Dinse wrote:
> > To the guy that asked about Linux on a 4/690, it works on a 4/670 which is
> > the same system board, just smaller chassis without all the drive bays of a
> > 690; however, the same spin_lock bug in 2.2.x that affects SS-10 also affected
> > the 4/670 so it wasn't stable, but that only applies if you have multiple
> > CPU's. If it's a single CPU box it will probably be fine.
>
> Err, the 470 and 490 are completely different machines than the 670/690,
> they aren't the CPUs - 490 is sun4, 690 is sun4m. Codenames were sunray
> and galaxy for whatever that is worth.
> - --
> - ---
> Larry McVoy lm@bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
Yes they are, but a 4/670MP (what I had) and a 4/690MP are same system
board, just more drive bays and larger chassis on the latter.
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