Re: hypersparc news?

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:08:52AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Any news on the 2.4 + hypersparc front?  I know some docs were passing
> > hands a couple months ago from looking through the archives, but haven't
> > seen anything since then.
> > 
> > I've got a SS10 with dual 125's - it used to be my firewall in RH6.2 days.
> > Dug it back out of the closet a couple months ago and put aurora-1.0 on it
> > just for grins.
> > 
> > It can only boot uniprocessor, and heavy loads make it freeze... anyone
> > anticipating a change in hypersparc status, or should I give up on this old
> > beast and eBay the parts?
> 
> What happens if you boot it smp?  What are the symptoms?
> 
> Also, just so we can get a step further, boot it up and change the
> kernel.stop-a and kernel.sysrq settings in /etc/sysctl.conf .  You'll need
> to run "/sbin/sysctl -p" to have the change take effect.  When it fails,
> see if stop+p shows anything; if so, copying it down and sending it to the
> list (along with info about which kernel package you're using) will help.  
> After that, try stop+a , which should drop you back to the prom's "ok"
> prompt.  If it does, "ctrace" should show us a traceback, and we can at
> least start to look at what's going wrong.

having quad hyperSPARC 125MHz CPU, I'd really like to see this working
once again, it's a little going on at the sparclinux list, I suggest
that you consider posting there instead of here (or might it be
suitable to cross-post, nah...)

See the latest on hyperSPARC there at 

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=105709720414250&w=2

Cheers,

/ChJ