[Gllug] Random freezes

[Christian Smith]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Nix wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Ian Northeast suggested tentatively:
>> I'm not sure about the others, but the Classic is definitely sun4m. I
>> thought they were all the same. It will run Solaris 9 (but not 10, no
>> 32 bit SPARCs will run 10) if you so care, although Debian is likely
>> to appeal more to folks round here.


An IPX is a sun4c.


>
>You'd better run a 2.2 kernel then; 2.4+ don't work well on non-Ultra
>SPARCs. (Or at all? Does anyone know? None of the SPARC/Linux
>maintainers have non-Ultras anymore, you see...)

Or just use an actively maintained NetBSD kernel on there. Works like a
charm, and you can even get GNU Debian/NetBSD if you fancy trying to
compile it.

With sun4c, NetBSD handles the strange SPARC MMU much better than Linux
ever could due to the fundamental weakness of Linux MM architecture.

Christian

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