Subject: Re: Sparc 20 hypersparc vs Ultra 2
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/20/2005 20:40:31
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Hello,

>    On the other hand - a lot of code seems to be already in place, and it=
's
>    supposed to work pretty much the same as on sparc32, isn't it?
>=20
>=20
> not really -- sparcv8 & sparcv9 kernel-level things are really quite
> different.  amazingly so.  compare to amd64 - you can run x86 oses
> on this directly without any problem.  sparc64 _needs_ a sparc64
> kernel whether it is compiled 32 or 64 bit.

I merely meant the way multiple CPUs are handled ( and no, I didn't read ne=
arly enough yet )

> chuq could probably explain better than i can ;-)

He'd be among the first people I'd pester about this ;)

have fun
Michael

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