[Aurora-sparc-user] Wikipedia sparc 32 support.

Chris Andrew cjhandrew at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 12:41:34 EDT 2007


Jima,

Thanks for that.  Now to find out the best version of Aurora to use, and
where to get it.

Thanks,

Chris.

On 23/07/07, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Chris Andrew wrote:
> > Thanks for that.  What do ISTR and UO mean?
>
> ISTR = I seem to recall
>
> UP = UniProcessor (as opposed to SMP, Symmetric MultiProcessor)
>
>   UP kernels will work fine on machines with multiple CPUs, they just
> won't
> initialize more than one.  (I'm not well-versed in the electrical side of
> it, but I suspect the non-active CPU might still use electricity.  Minor
> downside.)
>
>       Jima
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