Re: Re: hypersparc Wow! Maybe someone else has done our work for us!
Peter Jones <[email protected]>
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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.