Solaris 9 U6 x86 on Via CPU's
Rob Healey
cPU's? The kernel seems to think that the C3 is just a 486. Previous
versions at least did an initial boot although failed for other reasons.
Is there a boot flag one can use or am I SOL trying to use the low power
VIA based motherboards with x86 Solaris?
Linux and NetBSD run just fine on the box although you need to be
careful with gcc arch optimizations since the C3 chips don't implement
all x86 instructions.
-Rob
Casper H.S. Dik
>Is it possible to convince S9 U6 to boot on systems based on the VIA C3
>cPU's? The kernel seems to think that the C3 is just a 486. Previous
>versions at least did an initial boot although failed for other reasons.
What is the failure mode? Is it "this is a 486 which we don't support"
or is it something else?
>Is there a boot flag one can use or am I SOL trying to use the low power
>VIA based motherboards with x86 Solaris?
How old are these?
>Linux and NetBSD run just fine on the box although you need to be
>careful with gcc arch optimizations since the C3 chips don't implement
>all x86 instructions.
That might be an issue for Solaris also. The Sun compilers use
more and more optimizations for the x86 architecture.
Casper
Juergen Keil
> Is it possible to convince S9 U6 to boot on systems based on the VIA
> C3 cPU's? The kernel seems to think that the C3 is just a
> 486. Previous versions at least did an initial boot although failed
> for other reasons.
>
>
> Is there a boot flag one can use or am I SOL trying to use the low
> power VIA based motherboards with x86 Solaris?
There is a workaround[*] (the enable486 flag), but the kernel
clock/timer code does not work too well when this workaround is
enabled, so it appears to be unusable at this time.
Will Hartung
news:40726d76$0$575$e4fe...@news.xs4all.nl...
> Rob Healey <rhe...@mr.net> writes:
> >Is there a boot flag one can use or am I SOL trying to use the low power
> >VIA based motherboards with x86 Solaris?
>
> How old are these?
If they're the same CPU's I'm thinking of, they're actually quite new (as in
recently manufactured, I don't know how old the design is). They show up on
the mini-ITX form factor motherboards, note for small size, low power, and
silent operation (as many lack any fan whatsoever). They're pretty neet
little boards. People are squeezing these things into everything.
Regards,
Will Hartung
(wi...@msoft.com)
Michael Laajanen
Will Hartung wrote:
> "Casper H.S. Dik" <Caspe...@Sun.COM> wrote in message
> news:40726d76$0$575$e4fe...@news.xs4all.nl...
<snip>
>
> If they're the same CPU's I'm thinking of, they're actually quite new (as in
> recently manufactured, I don't know how old the design is). They show up on
> the mini-ITX form factor motherboards, note for small size, low power, and
> silent operation (as many lack any fan whatsoever). They're pretty neet
> little boards. People are squeezing these things into everything.
>
> Regards,
Yes they are very popular now, I guess you are also thinking about Via
tech see link below.
It would be a pity if Solaris would not run on them as they are perfect
as desktop machines!
http://www.viatech.com/en/index/index.jsp
/michael
Joerg Schilling
Or (from a hint from a Sun employee that I meet at CeBIT):
http://forum.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=11&thread=15512
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