From: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr> Date: 19 Feb 2002 16:50:47 -0600 Message-Id: <1014159047.4607.24.camel@lucy> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Help with installing SuSE 7.3 on a Sun Blade 100
> I'd be happy to offer my services as QA/Beta tester. :-)
> system specs:
> sparcstation 20
> 256MB memory
> (2) Ross 142MHz
> SunPCI Sbus (AMD 486/120 I believe)
Ouch... You have a SunPC. The SunPCi are the new PCI models for the
ultra boxes.
I don't know how hard it will be to make a driver for this cards, but I
suspect that a lot harder than to make a driver for a SunPCi.
The SunPCi's have a lot of internal componets that will make tasks
easyer at the begining. For example, it has a video card, and an USB
bus, so if should probably be as easy as sending an init command to the
card to turn it on.
Then one needs be able to pass a lot of devices from the sunpci to the
"big" box. For example the IDE hard drive... Lets hope that the kernel
has a neat interface for doing it ;)
Probably, after some code as been writen, to make the driver support the
sbus SunPC will be a neat trick.
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