Re: Re: hypersparc Wow! Maybe someone else has done our work for us!

Peter Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303191412520.12350-100000@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> > They're not doing anything special here, besides claiming hardware
> > support that doesn't work (most notably, sun4d and ss5/170).
> 
> Huh?
> 
> (**) The 170MHz SPARC 5 (Also known as the TurboSPARC) is only supported
> in the newer kernel releases. There is not much active development, and
> UltraLinux on this processor is not very stable.
> 
> Nothing but the truth.

Er, where's the truth part?  I haven't sen any "newer kernel releases" 
that support the turbosparc, and "UltraLinux" usually only refers to the 
64-bit platforms, which this isn't.

I'm not sure I'd call it a _lie_, but it's certainly at least VERY 
confused.

-- 
        Peter

Stay sane inside insanity.
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