| >>>>> "sc" =3D=3D Steven Chiang <steven_nature@seed.net.tw> writes:
|
|     sc> portable SPARC workstation (Powered by Sun=A1=A6s UltraSPARC IIe
|     sc> processor). [...]
|
|     sc> Because of the processor we used (Sun's UltraSPARC IIe), I'm
|     sc> afraid that we can't support NetBSD. According to my
|     sc> understanding, our platform will support Linux in the near
|     sc> future.
|
| w.t.f.?!  Is this true, that we don't support the IIe?

That's news to me.  Last I remember it worked.  Let's see...

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    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5Y (PLUS) #67: Sat Oct 20 13:43:36 PDT 2001
    eeh@plus.netbsd.org:/home7/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/PLUS
total memory = 256 MB
avail memory = 228 MB
using 1651 buffers containing 13208 KB of memory
bootpath: /pci@1f,0/ide@d,0/disk@0,0:d
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe @ 502 MHz, version 0 FPU
cpu0: physical 4K instruction (32 b/l), 4K data (32 b/l), 8192K external (64 b/l) 

Yup.  Still seems to be working.

| (this company, Naturetech, is selling not-obsolete SPARC laptops.  I
|  suggested that they (1) not send spam and (2) look into NetBSD
|  support.
|
|  http://www.naturetech.com.tw/ )

Where were they spreading this mis-information?

Eduardo