Re: Kernel Questions

On Dec 25, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Miod Vallat wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Did you mean that, by  
> running a
> SUN4M kernel on such a machine, some devices are not detected, while  
> the
> GENERIC kernel finds them? If so, I'd like to get a dmesg of that  
> system
> runinng GENERIC (and another running SUN4M if you can, but I can do
> without).
>
> I have such a Cycle 5 replacement board, but in SS2 form factor, and
> with a 110MHz cpu only; the only odd thing about it is that GENERIC
> finds both sun4c-style and sun4m-style audio devices (audioamd and
> audiocs), and I've never taken the time to check which only is wired  
> to
> the speaker. If the real audio device is audioamd, then it won't be
> detected by the SUN4M kernel; but I can't see any other component of
> this board being misdetected by the SUN4M kernel.

Sorry for being unclear.  I seem to recall that there was at least one  
sun4c component that was not in the sun4m config that the Cycle had  
(possibly audio), and there was, of course, a bunch of stuff in the  
sun4m config that Cycle 5 board didn't have. I don't recall the  
specifics, since I realized it was a non-issue, and as I just moved,  
my firewall is in a box (which I hope to get set up this weekend, when  
I finish the wiring for the house).  I'll have a dmesg then.

Sean