Re: Kernel Questions

> I have a Sun IPX that's got a Cycle 5 motherboard with a Fujitsu 170MHz 
> turbosparc processor in it, so it looks like a Sun4m, even though it's got 
> some Sun4c bits.  So I compiled my own kernels for about two years (yeah, 
> it's about 18 years old, I guess) since if I used the sun4m kernel, I'd 
> have stuff in the kernel that wasn't on the machine.  And of course it 
> won't boot on a sun4c kernel.

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Did you mean that, by running a
SUN4M kernel on such a machine, some devices are not detected, while the
GENERIC kernel finds them? If so, I'd like to get a dmesg of that system
runinng GENERIC (and another running SUN4M if you can, but I can do
without).

I have such a Cycle 5 replacement board, but in SS2 form factor, and
with a 110MHz cpu only; the only odd thing about it is that GENERIC
finds both sun4c-style and sun4m-style audio devices (audioamd and
audiocs), and I've never taken the time to check which only is wired to
the speaker. If the real audio device is audioamd, then it won't be
detected by the SUN4M kernel; but I can't see any other component of
this board being misdetected by the SUN4M kernel.

Miod