Greetings,

I recently completed a successful installation of Debian Etch 4.0r0 on
my Sun Fire v240 - which went without a hitch over a serial connection..

well, the only sticking point was that the v240 eth0 as labeled on the back
of the machine wasnt the real eth0... it turned out I need to plug in to eth2
to get the Debian version of eth0.. an extremely minor annoyance.

I would like to express my gratitude to the Debian Sparc team for making this
a surprisingly pleasant and easy experience!

On a similar note, we are considering getting a Sun Fire T1000 system. I
have read a lot about the press with
Ubuntu/Canonical + Sun - but was wondering if anyone could comment about
those vague "optimizations to Linux" made for the T1000, if they have "made
it" in to Etch, and if I should stick with a sun fire V240 or if the T1000
is really going to be a significantly better performing machine (as a web/db
server) under debian Etch sparc64 SMP

Thanks,

Matt

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Matt Weatherford wrote: well, the

With three reports so far, I guess we could add this to the release notes :)

Or maybe file a bug against the kernel driver so that it changes its device
ordering strategy because it consistently misses the physical order, so
there's probably a pattern that can be detected and worked around?

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:02 -0700, Matt Weatherford wrote:

When talking to a Sun rep. they said the next firmware version for the
T1 based machines would allow Linux to be run as a guest OS; using their
virtualisation tech (and Solaris as a host). I don't know of any
annoucement of which distro's would be supported; the rep I spoke to
didn't seem to know.

Kernel support for the T1 was added in 2.6.17