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4.1 Hardware

Hardware

Red Hat Linux/SPARC is known to function on the following hardware:

sun4c architecture machines (IPC, SS1, etc)
sun4m architecture machines (Classic, SS5, SS10, etc)
bwtwo, cg3, cg6, TCX framebuffers (24 bit on the TCX)
cg14 framebuffer (in cg3 mode)
SCSI and Ethernet on all of the above
type 4 and type 5 keyboards and mice
external SCSI drives
CD-ROM drives (external and internal)
SCSI/Ether SBUS expansion cards
Any original equipment Sun monitor for the above framebuffers

A partial list of unsupported hardware:

VME based sun4m machines, such as the 4/690

sun4d (SS1000, SS2000)

sun4u (UltraSparc1, UltraSparc2, EnterPrise UltraSparc servers)

sun4 architecture

Eurocard sun4c machines, called the `sun4e' under Solaris2.4 and others, are not supported. These are VME-bus sun4c machines, to which the kernel has not been ported yet.

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