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Hi all,
this sounds like (Hardware-)initialisation Problems on Hypersparcs
in SMP-Mode or Bugs in arch depended SMP-Kernel-Code on Kernel 2.4.x.
Thorsten, do you use your 125MHz HyperSparc's as SMP-Engines?
If not, i will try to check this Kernel on my ss10 with only 1 CPU.
Thank you
Rolf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Kukuk [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] New kernel for testing
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > at my ss10 (sun4m, 2 x RT626/142MHz/1MCache, 128MB) the new precompiled
> > Kernel do _not_ boot.
> > It stops after the first 5 or 6 Lines (init Mem) with Interrupt 15 and
> > return to siloprompt.
> > started twice, he hang and a cold boot is nesessary.
> >
> > IMHO it looks like the old Problem on booting by using a newer
> gcc instead
> > of egcs
>
> If your machine needs a egcs compiled kernel, you have to stuck with
> kernel 2.2.18 (I don't know why, but this is the last 2.2 kernel which
> works stable for me on SPARC, later one don't do so).
> egcs is not able to compile a working 2.4.19+ kernel for sparc32.
> Currently, the only compiler which works for me is gcc 2.95.3.
>
> But I have running the kernel now on 7 32bit SPARCs (all I currently
> have) without any problems. All machines are building RPMs the whole
> day, so they have really something to do.
>
> > but a bug / incompatibility in HyperSparc-CPU's or anything else are
> > possible too.
>
> I only have 125MHz HyperSparc CPUs, but this stable since one week with
> this kernel.
>
> > I think, Sparcs using spezial Startupcode to "align"
> Codesegemts in propper
> > Memory,
> > is this Code checked and proof?
>
> I don't think that anybody is working in this area.
>
> Thorsten
>
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