Re: GP7000 (sun4us) with SuSE for Sparc??

Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Organization SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 04, Lockenvitz Jan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to install SuSE 7.3 for sparc on an old Fujitsu-Siemens GP7000 which
> is a sun4us system. 
> But during boot from the CD he crashes to the "ok" prompt after "uncompressing"!
> On the support list of SuSE I only found that the sun4u system is supported, but I
> also did not found, that the sun4us system is not supported. 
> The CD is working fine on a SUN Ultra 5, so does anyone of you know whether it's
> working or not???

The Fujitsu-Siemens GP* Systems are not supported by the standard
Linux kernel. I know that Fujitsu-Siemens has kernel patches for at
least some of their systems, but this patches are not public available.

  Thorsten

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