[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Oct 4 20:35:02 UTC 2010


On Monday, October 04, 2010 02:11:57 pm aaron wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 16:00, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > Check this out:
> > 
> > About 64-bit SPARC support
> > 
> > The Debian SPARC port, as mentioned above, does support the sun4u
> > (“Ultra”) architecture. It uses a 64-bit kernel (compiled with gcc 3.3
> > or newer), but most of the applications run in 32-bit. This is also
> > called a “32-bit userland”.
> > 
> > The Debian SPARC 64 (a.k.a., “UltraLinux”) porting effort is not
> > currently conceived as a full porting effort like other ports. Rather,
> > it is intended to be an add-on to the SPARC Port.
> 
> Phooey. Maybe it is a hunk of junk after all, then ;-)
> 
> > It *should* be able to run a Myth B/E, if using an HDHR, or possibly even
> > a USB capture device. You'd probably have to compile yourself, but
> > that's no big deal.
> 
> I usually compile Myth myself... but my main Myth box is an AthlonXP
> 2800+ (see other e-mail about the system being obsolete) and it takes
> an hour to compile if the system is otherwise idle. I can't imagine
> how long it would take to compile on the the Ultra 1 :)
> 
> > But they are power hogs by today's standards, and probably not worth the
> > effort except as a "proof of concept" exercise.
> 
> Oh, absolutely it would be a proof of concept.... I only ran DB2 on it
> because it was easier to ssh home and test things out on that slow
> machine rather than try to track down a working Solaris test box at
> work :)
> 
> ...although now I'm kind of curious if I could do it... and how long
> it would take :)
> 
> ...too bad I have no free time....


Easily solved, just do what I did: Retire :-)

When you said "Ultra" I didn't realize it was an Ultra-1, that's pretty slow.



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