Hello,

I have seen on several mailinglists peoples asking about Debian support
for sun machines, namely older ones...

Since the CPU of my Sparc Ultra 20 is exploded (!!!) I have the need to
reinstall my SS10/512 (Dual-PU) and since I use older hardware many
peoples (specialy IT/Scientific students) have asked me about...

So not THE auestions:

1) Is there a list od Sun Computers (SS5, SS10, SS20, SU5, SU10,
SU20) with which Release(s) they are working?

2) Is there a list of hardware which work or does not work?

Michelle Konzack wrote:

FWIW: my U30 works with woody and newer, never tried older releases.

kernel documentation? other distributions "hardware compatibility
lists"? ${www_search_machine}?

i think, this should be placed somewhere on wiki.debian.org, not on just
another unofficial, hard to find page...

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Michelle Konzack a écrit :

Hello,

I don't know if that list exists... But, I use a debian/testing on a
SS5 (MicroSPARC-II/85 256 MB). ZX support (framebuffer console) seems to
be broken, thus, I only use a CG6 with this workstation.

Hi,

Michelle Konzack writes:

Support for `sun4c' machines (e.g., SS2, SS1, IPC) was officially
dropped in Etch. I believe Sarge was already hardly installable on such
machines [0].

Support for SMP `sun4m' was dropped (well, largely unmaintained) in the
2.6 Linux kernel and is now slowly reappearing. However, AFAIK, it is
not yet considered stable. Thus, Etch won't have any `sparc32-smp'
kernel image [1]. 2.4 SMP kernels that came with Sarge do work, though.

As for `sun4d' machines, I don't know.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/05/msg00084.html
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/12/msg00009.html

Michelle Konzack napsal(a):

Ultra5 - 2.6.20 work all, I don't test X
SS5 - 2.6.20 work all, Eth,SCSI,eject floppy (reading from floppy
doesn't work may be HW problem)

Hello *,

if the time allow me, I will setup a SPARC page on my new website (not
registered yet, since I do not know currenly where to host an .IR domain)
with the infos provided by you and reading the List-Archive which I have
since some time.

Please note, that I need only the SPARC as "pbuilder" or "sbuilder".

My remaining SPARCstation 10/512 has only one 9 GByte intern and one
9 GByte drive in a external case without CD-Rom.

Not a killer but it should work for small packages...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant