If one of you guys knows where i can find a weitek powerup chip still i
would be greatful. It appears the sparc i have has had its processor with
the onboard FPU replaced with a processor from a SS2, which does not have an
onboard FPU, and is messing up my attempts to put netbsd and other OS's on
it.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: matthew green [mailto:mrg@eterna.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:12 PM
To: rmk@rmkhome.com
Cc: Jonathan Crawford; Portsparc; Glendon Gross
Subject: re: NetBSD 1.5.2 on IPX boot problems...



   >By the way, is there any way to upgrade the processor in
   >one of these older Sparc boxes?  I was able to add a 2nd processor
   >to a SPARC 10, but was wondering if there is any upgrade path
   >for the older boxes.   TIA.

   You can upgrade the SS2 and the IPX to a Weitek PowerUp chip which runs
   at 80Mhz. There does seem to be some talk in the mailling list archives
   back in 1996 about problems with NetBSD after this upgrade. I'm not sure
   if this was ever "fixed".

problems?  i have run several powerup's in SS2's and an IPX over the
years without incident...