Subject: SPARCcenter 1000
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/07/2000 11:37:03
Hello, SPARC folks.

I'm about to turn off SPARCcenter electricity due to the end of life
(asset cycle) and retire it from duty within a few days.  According to
NetBSD/sparc WEB page SPARCcenter is categolized as one of unsupported
models.  Is it worth trying to run NetBSD/sparc on it, or just a pipe
dream???  What's the technical obstracle to do that?  Without
appropriate action, it will be dumped in a straight fashion as nCUBE
or Challeges as we discarded recently.

   sun4d w/ 4x TI,TMS390Z550 SuperSPARC, 327680KB memory, Fibre Channel RAID 

It is pre-ULTRA-age, runs slowly.

Tohru Nishimrura