[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

[aaron]

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....

aaron