On Feb 22, 2005, at 5:51 PM, James Cornell wrote:

> Hmm... SMP is more important then X IMOH.  I bought this machine 
> specifically for
> server usage, so it won't be running X anytime soon.  Anyways... 
> whatever the case,
> I'll use Solaris if Sparc64 SMP NetBSD remains unavailable.  I won't 
> be getting
> rid of the machine anytime soon, so even if I have to wait until 2007 
> for NetBSD
> 4 or whatever, then it doesn't really matter.

I agree wholeheartedly here.  I own or am responsible for about fifteen 
Ultrasparc Sun machines running NetBSD, most of them are actually 
active machines on the 'net.  I'm running 1.6.x or 2.0RC1 on the 
majority of them, and the U2s are (disappointingly) single-proc for no 
reason other than the lack of SMP support in Sparc64.  if this support 
were there, there are a couple U1/170's which I would replace 
IMEEEDIATELY with U2-2/300s.

I don't run X on a single one of these machines.  in fact, not a single 
one of them even has a framebuffer installed.



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George

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