I have a question concerning Sparc's. I own a Sparcclassic that has a 50 mhz CPU, 16 megs of RAM, and a 200 mg SCSI HD. I plan on upgrading it to at least a 1 gig hard disk and probably maxing out the RAM (48 I believe). I know that Red Hat no longer supports Sparc and thats fine, I'll use Debian. Well, it currently runs OpenBSD (and suprisingly well, its quite a zippy little box for its age) and I'd like to experiment and slap Linux on it (as well as NetBSD later on down the road). However, I saw this tidbit in the NetBSD sparc FAQ -
Why is NetBSD so much faster than SparcLinux on sun4c (top) The memory management hardware on sun4c machines (SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC and clones) is not handled particularly well by Linux. Until Linux reworks their MMU code NetBSD will be very much faster on this hardware. I was curious if this is still true with newer kernels such as the late 2.2 series or even the 2.4 series. I believe that my Sparc is more or less an IPX repackaged and resold - so my box would be included. If it is still true and Sparc Linux on my machine would be noticably slower then *BSD, no biggie. This is just my play box - my main box (a PC) runs Red Hat 8 quite happily. Any thoughts? Regards, ~Christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
