Subject: Re: HyperSPARC support
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/15/1998 03:32:54
>> I thought HyperSPARC support had gone into 1.3?  I tried booting an SS10
>> with an HS CPU in it using the 1.3.2 miniroot, and it failed with
>> "hypersparc support still under development" (or words to that effect).
> 
> Some work has been done in support of the HyperSPARC, but it was never
> fully tested.  Last time someone tested a generic 1.3 kernel, it died
> early in the bootstrap phase for reasons I haven't found out about yet.

The kernel I tested booting from on an SS20/151 was a 1.3.2 GENERIC_SCSI3
kernel.

(I already sent Paul the messages and the "devinfo -v" output, Erik)

	- Greg