Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:03:53 +0000 From: "Rob MacGregor" <rob_macgregor@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on SunFire V100 Message-ID: <BAY1-F779dldwcvHLjr000480d5@hotmail.com>
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>From: Pete Bentley <pete@sorted.org>
>
>Depends what you mean by "live". FreeBSD/sparc64 is definitely
>getting there but (at least on this low-end hardware) I don't think
>it's production quality yet...
>
>I had one IOMMU-related panic last night, but unfortunately lost
>the details (unexpectedly short xterm scrollback, sorry) about
>an hour *after* it completed a cvsup+make world... And then there
>was the vfork()/perl weirdness just recently.
>
>I'd say hammer on it and track down/report/fix bugs but don't use
>it for an application where crashes are unacceptable.
Well, I've just proven that any attempt to ping causes an IOMMU fault :-(
I'll be using NetBSD on this box by the looks of things. If I get another
box and enough spare time I'll raise a bug report.
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Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?
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