iirc the trick in supporting them was the xdbus stuff they have - the
frontplane-to-backplane stuff or somesuch.

dan

Quoting Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>:

> 
> No, it uses one of a set of Viking or Hypersparc modules, just like
> Sun4m.
> 
> 
> > 
> > I've supported them, but never opened one up. 
> http://www.solarsys.com/
> > seems to say they take different CPUs.  What's the difference,
> > architecture-wise?
> > 
> > --
> > Sean Berry                                                   
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> employer.  
> > 
> > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 07:30:39PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > > 
> > >  >    and if hardware could be made available ... ?
> > >  > 
> > >  > 
> > >  > then you need to find volunteers i guess :-)
> > > 
> > > Then sun4d itself isn't too strage, afaik.  I'm pretty sure it uses
> the
> > > sun4m MMU, etc.  The first step would be to get an OpenProm dump of
> the
> > > device tree just to get an idea what's there.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> > > 
> > 
> 
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