Subject: Re: SS20 NetBSD kiosk?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/03/2004 13:47:08
> I'm being offered an SS20 in what I believe to be a pretty nice
> configuration: 2x 180Mhz HyperSPARC, 320MB ram, 8MB VSIMM, 2x 9.1GB
> HD. I would put NetBSD 2.0 on it and turn this into an Internet kiosk
> (light-weight web, e-mail, etc usage), so that visiting nephews and
> nieces keep their hands of my primary workstation ;-)

Yeah, that's a pretty sweet little box.

> I understand that the dual hypersparcs are supported in 2.0, but I'm
> unsure about the onboard cg14 graphics.

For what value of "supported"?  My 20-with-cg14 certainly works, in
that I have X running with both 8bpp and 24bpp windows; the technology
exists.  Last I heard, NetBSD's X on SPARC hadn't picked it up, though.
(And not even my code uses the acceleration that I understand the cg14
has, because I have no documentation on it.)

If you decide not to take it and it would otherwise be trashed, I'd
very much like to get hold of the RAM and VSIMM from it.

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