Sun PCI II Coprocessor Support for Linux? 8
nprodrom asks: "Has anyone done any developement on drivers/software to support the Sun PCI II Coprocessor board under Linux? I know very little about creating such things, but everything I've read makes me think that it must be possible (except for the fact that I haven't seen anything about someone actually doing it). I've got this crazy hair-brained idea of having about six of these things running in one big Linux box to do some really cool terminal stuff. Now I just need to find someone else who is smart enough to write it for me.
Never heard of these things? You can find out more information about them
here".
These things are yet another way to run Windows under a Unix system, this (it seems) is made expressly for Solaris. Would supporting this piece of hardware under different Unicies be possible?
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But in the website he links to, it explicitly says,
"Note: SunPCi II software drivers currently support a maximum of one card in any Sun workstation."
So that wont work. Sounds like a cool idea though (although, I'd run Windows 2000 to play games...)
Mark Duell
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What do you hope to gain?
-Peter
"There is no number '1.'"
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Well, it would be pretty useful if you already had a big Sun box sitting around with a bunch of these cards.
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True. Though as other pointed out, it's probably just bad drivers.
If you like, s/big machine/a lot of Ultra5s/ in my previous comment.
In any case, it would be a pretty cool hack to be able to use both the normal CPU and an x86 chip at the same time (you could probably set it up in Linux to automatically run x86 executables there - x86 "emulation" in hardware on a SPARC)
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If you're going to be making your own driver for the card, you might as well have multi-card support, right?
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