[indiana-discuss] Feedback requested! Which SPARC platforms to target

[James Cornell]

Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Those working on the cheap may well be using the same box as a workstation and
> a local/workgroup server.  So getting some of Martin's ports of BSD drivers up
> to integration level quality might be really helpful.  Systems that only have
> PCI (not PCI-X or PCIe) but also have UPA do _much_ better when able to
> use a UPA card, and on that front, the X.org ffb driver would cover the
> Creator, Creator3D, and Elite-3D boards.
>
> I for one probably won't be able to take Indiana for a spin on SPARC without
> that (although I might have an old XVR-100 kicking around somewhere...yuck).
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My formed Ultra 80 (E250-based) Quad USII with Creator graphics and a
DVD-rom was able to play movies pretty well, and it was certainly a nice
system for compressing data and doing encryption even by today's
standards, but the darn thing at load sucks up a large percentage of the
670W PSU's capacity and had to go.  Solaris 10 faired quite well on it,
and my friend who I have it to has little bad to say about Solaris aside
from the bloat and is looking forward to support.

James