SPARC-HOWTO.

• Index
• Preface.
• SPARC, which one ?
• Buying a SPARC computer.
• SPARC based laptops
• The wonderful SparcStation Voyager
• Sun's Netra servers
• Sun's Enterprise servers
• Tatung's Workstations
• Tatung's SPARC Servers
• Fujitsu's supercomputers
• Linux on SPARC: 2 kernels.
• Choosing a distribution.
• Installing Linux
• Working with the Openboot.
• Hard drive buses.
• CDROM: specific settings.
• SILO.
• Compiling a kernel
• Keyboard and mouse.
• X Window.
• SMP.
• The sound.
• Serial port.
• Ressources.
• Thanks and Credits.
• Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks
• Revision History.

7. Sun's Enterprise servers

GNU/Linux is known to run on the following systems:

• SBUS based servers
  • Enterprise 1
  • Enterprise 2
  • Enterprise 150
  • Enterprise 3000
  • Enterprise 3500
  • Enterprise 4000
  • Enterprise 4500
  • Enterprise 5000
  • Enterprise 6000
  • Enterprise 6500
  • Enterprise 10000 (up to 64 CPUs can be fitted in this server. It is nicknamed StarFire). More information about running a 2.6.x GNU/Linux kernel on an E10k can be found on this page: http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/e10k/debian_on_e10k.txt
  As far as I know, Linux on these systems have been tested with up to 24 CPUs
• PCI based servers
  • Enterprise 250
  • Enterprise 450

http://sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/Unix/Linux/Splack/
sparc/splack-8.0/kernels/sun4u.s