This chapter provides information you'll need before you begin installing
Red Hat Linux on a SPARC system.
If you need more information, the UltraLinux Web page at http://www.ultralinux.org provides
a wealth of information for people using Red Hat Linux/SPARC.
Red Hat Linux/SPARC supports a variety of hardware based on the SPARC
architecture. The most recent list of hardware supported on Red Hat Linux/SPARC
can be found on Red Hat's Web site at http://www.redhat.com/hardware.
The following list was current at the time this manual was produced:
bwtwo, cg3, cg6, TCX frame buffers (24 bit on the TCX)
Creator, Creator3D, and Elite3D frame buffers (on UltraSPARC
systems)
Mach64/PGX24/PCI and PGX32/PCI frame buffers (on UltraSPARC systems)
LEO frame buffer (on sun4m systems)
cg14 frame buffer (in cg3 mode)
SCSI and Ethernet on all of the above
type 4, type 5 and type 6 keyboards and mice
external SCSI drives
CD-ROM drives (external and internal)
SCSI/Ether SBUS expansion cards
Any original equipment Sun monitor for the frame buffers listed
Unsupported Hardware -- The following list contains hardware that is
currently unsupported:
VME-based sun4m machines, such as the 4/690
SPARC 5 Model 170 machines
sun4d (SS1000, SS2000)
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.
The following types of CD-ROMs are unsupported (for more information
on CD-ROM compatibility issues, please visit http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq):
