Subject: Re: JavaStation running 1.5_A :-)
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@metabyte.com>
From: Hagbard Seline <hseline@eng.sun.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/07/2000 10:37:42
Fox works fine on NetBSD. Been using it for quite some time now as
router and mp3 player.  What was Roxy the next revision Fox?

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> > From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
> > Date: 07/07/2000 10:51:19 
> 
> > THanks for the patch pk, the javastation is now running 1.5_ALPHA like
> > a champ...
> 
> I am very glad that our friendly competition is not sleeping.
> Now, what about PCI support with IIep? I have certain hopes for
> NetBSD on SunRay because Linux has no swap over NFS to speak of,
> but NetBSD does. With 8MB of RAM it may be handy, don't you think?
> If you have any questions about IIep, feel free to ask.
> 
> Here is the Javastation and relatives platform scorecard:
> 
> Platform		Linux			NetBSD
> ------------------	-------------		----------------
> (SBus/PCI platforms)
> JS-1 (OBP 2.30)		Solid			Works
> JS-1 (OBP 3.x)		Solid			? works ?
> 
> (PCI mass produced platforms)
> CP-1200 (OBP 2.30)	Lame (DMA error on hme)	-
> JS-NC			Solid 			-
> 			Boots from flash, too
> JE-1			Solid			-
> SGSC			Worked, bitroted	-
> SR-1			Not planned in 8MB	-
> 
> (PCI lame duck and one-off platforms)
> JS-E			Solid,			-
> 			includes IDE disk
> Roxy			Works, but abandoned	-
> Fox			E.B. did something...	-
> 
> --Pete
>