Enoch Zembecowicz <enoch@zembecowicz.org> writes:

>A while back I picked up a Sparcserver 670MP. I had no idea if it worked
>or not, but it was free so that wasn't much of a turnoff. It sat idle for
>a while until I picked up a framebuffer card, and it fired up and tested
>the memory without issue.
>Now that I know that the thing works I want to go about getting some hard
>disks in it and getting the old beast up and running, but I'm unable to
>find a free (beer or speech) operating system that completely supports the
>machine. As far as I know Linux supports SMP but not the VME bus. NetBSD
>and OpenBSD supports the VME bus but not SMP.
>Any suggestions?

I'm about to attempt getting Gentoo Linux running on my SS600 system. My
machine is an SS600 system board mounted in an old Sun 3/110 3-slot SunVME
enclosure which has the floor-standing tower kit fitted. Makes for a really
neat machine.

The question will be just how well Gentoo Linux supports the devices on the
system board...

Anyone have any experience with Gentoo on the SS600MP platform?

Craig.
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