Sun SPARC Modern Software on SPARC Thread starter delucks Start date Sep 29 2021 delucks New member Sep 29 2021 4 5 3 my machines are 64bit and Im trying to run modern software on all of them My Sun Blade 150 UltraSPARC IIi runs Debian sid as a workstation for fixing bugs with Linux userland software A Sun Fire T1000 T1
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SunSparc Search Wiki Login Debian supports the more civilized models some of the early ones are unsupported or poorly supported Subflavors There are a bunch They can generally be divided into 32bit old and 64bit new 32bit has been broken in 24 due to lack of hackers on old machines In general the IO subsystem is much
Debian installs normally on these machines however when selecting a built in network interface they do show up in the correct order Listed below is the order they show up in the installer corresponding to their port number on the chassis SunSparc XorgOnSparc Bugs BTS list CategoryPorts CategoryDebianInstaller CategoryDebianInstaller
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Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x8664 based workstations and serversOriginally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris it superseded the companys earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability especially on SPARC systems and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace ZFS and Time Slider
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SM71 SPARCstation MBus CPU module Interior of a SPARCstation 20 with Ross MBus CPU module The SPARCstation 20 has dual 50 MHz MBus ports that allow it to use faster CPUs than the SPARCstation 10With two dualCPU modules and updated firmware the SPARCstation 20 supports a maximum of four CPUsThe fastest CPU produced for the SPARCstation 20 is the 200 MHz Ross hyperSPARC
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The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels mailing list IRC channel dedicated to certain types of hardware
A Sun UltraSPARC II microprocessor 1997 SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture is a reduced instruction set computer RISC instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems 1 2 Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system developed in the early 1980sFirst developed in 1986 and released in 1987 3 2 SPARC was one of the most
The Debian SPARC port is a distributed effort just as Debian is Countless people have helped with the porting and documentation efforts although a short list of credits are available If youd like to help please join in the debiansparclistsdebianorg mailing list as described below and chime in
RC3 version of the Debian installer Contains the instructions on setting up the rarpd and tftp server for netbooting Thanks to Wiktor Wandachowicz There is also this howto available written by Nishant Sharma An unofficial netinst iso with a allmodular IDE drivers Fixes the problems with IDE device detection on SunBlades
Debian on Sparc Debian was supported on SunSparc machines starting with the release of Debian GNULinux 21 in March 1999 Sparc32 support was dropped after Debian 40 etch Sparc64 is in poor shape in Debian 7 wheezy and will not be included in later releases Currently theres unofficial Sparc64 debian sid netinstall ISO floating around in debiansparc mailing list