Re: PC-in-a-slot supported?

Joshua Uziel <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:32:13 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.ultralinux
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* Sandy Harris <[email protected]> [020330 12:28]:
> A friend has an Ultra 60 running Solaris with one of
> Sun's PC-in-a-slot boards. 400 MHz AMD CPU, 256 megs,
> on a PCI card. The thing is happily running Windows 98, 
> with the Ultra providing file system and display via 
> an X window. Handy for gaming, if not much else.
> 
> Does Ultralinux support these boards, perhaps via the 
> Solaris emulation stuff?

They're known as the "SunPCi" cards.  They are not supported by
sparc/linux and won't work under the Solaris emulation since (among
other things) the Solaris emulation won't handle the kernel side of
support for them.