Re: ES45 and SMP?

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Stephen Jones wrote:
>
> > I've got a few ES45s available to me with 4 procs each.  Before I put down 
> > the dough, is NetBSD ready for
> > prime time on these?  I'm guessing Greg is the only one that might know for 
> > sure.  And I of course don't
> > mean just loading NetBSD and then letting the machine idle, I mean really 
> > intense 24/7 use.
>
>  Our ES45 has just been removed from production, so I am attempting to boot 
> NetBSD on it, but no luck so far.
>
>  I have been able to boot an ES40 with no problems, but the ES45 (as well as 
> an ES47 we had taken out of production) fails loading the kernel.

  Ah, progress...

  The ES45 I have still had Tru64 on it, and when I booted it, I noticed 
that it loaded at 0xfffffc0000430000.  NetBSD was loading at 
0xfffffc0000300000, so I build a kernel that loaded at 0xfffffc0000430000.
This kernel completed loading and began executing:

8962064+479936 [529536+351743]=0x9d8c10

Entering netbsd-ES45 at 0xfffffc0000431130...

NetBSD does not yet support system type 38 (???).

panic: platform not supported


  Next step would be to add the system type support, which may be a bit 
more than I know.

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA