Subject: Re: r5k indy update
To: Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@rezrov.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 12/09/2004 23:56:52
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:10:03PM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've procured a r5ksc module for my Indy, did a full installation from the
> 2.0 release branch, and stress-tested memory/CPU/SCSI by doing parallel
> compiles from pkgsrc.
> 
> Initially, I had issues with cache panics.  I replaced the (Compaq surplus)
> RAM, and the panics went away.
> 
> It's been twelve hours, and it hasn't died.  I strongly suspect that the r5k
> errors experienced by others are due to RAM issues -- IRIX might be more
> forgiving than NetBSD in this area.
> 
> On a related note, I've put an image of the Indy -011 bootrom (necessary for
> r5k operation) at http://www.rezrov.net/bootroms/
> 
> Thanks to Scott for the modules and known-good RAM,

I usually don't get panics on my r5k indy, however I get hangs, which can be
recovered from ddb by killing the current process. See my reply to
Florian Stoehr about this.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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