Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:08:37 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Linux on 4/690... |
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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
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