RE: Anyone have working pre-v8 machines?

I have a lot of Sparc Classic. Is it V7? It is enough interesting to build a fast “Classic” with external framebuffer, 128M of ram and scsi2sd… Also, we have a lot of different SunRays (old ones - 1, 1g, 100), but I could not to netboot netbsd on this machines.

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Romain Dolbeau
Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 2:27 AM
To: NetBSD port-sparc mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Anyone have working pre-v8 machines?

 

Le mar. 5 avr. 2022 à 22:15, Mouse <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > a écrit :
> Speaking of this, is there any easy way to tell whether a given
> processor is v7, v8, or what?  The examples given here were making it
> look as though v7 were approximately sun4c, but then Romain Dolbeau

> wrote of a dual-v7 SS20, which means that v7==sun4c is not correct.

 

sun4 and sun4c are all v7; sun4m and newer 32 bits (sun4d, maybe others?) are almost all v8 - the SM100 module is the sole exception that I know of.

 

wikipedia has a list of SPARC with the architecture (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC>).

 

v7/post-v7 can be tested by trying to use a hardware multiplication instruction; if it causes an illegal instruction error, it's v7 (... unless the OS traps and emulates it but I don't think NetBSD or any Sun OSes do that), otherwise it's v8 or newer.

 

> cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 75 MHz, on-chip FPU

 

SuperSPARC II in a SM71, so v8


> cpu0 at mainbus0: RT620/625 @ 125 MHz, on-chip FPU

 

HyperSPARC (an HS21 ? or some Ross module), so also v8.

 

Cordially,


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Romain Dolbeau