Subject: Re: Kernel Boot error
To: None <mj@turner.org.za>
From: Johan A.van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/29/2006 16:03:03
Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:23:24AM -0600, Johan A.van Zanten wrote:
> > At this point, my best guess is that there is a serious problem in the MP
> > NetBSD 3.1 code on sparc, at least for the 50 MHz SuperSPARC CPUs i use.
> 
> Hmm... I have a pair of machines, each with a pair of SM61s and they've
> both been rock solid with 3.0 and 3.1. Both have uptimes of ~26 days and
> are fairly busy serving DNS, DHCP, ntp, Kerberos, etc. They're both running
> a custom kernel, but whilst upgrading them and before building a custom
> kernel they ran GENERIC.MP.
> 
> I have a pair of SM50s in my parts box and can bring up another SS20 to see
> if I can reproduce the problem. Before I got the SM61s, I did have one of
> the machines mentioned above running 3.0 stably with an MP kernel and a
> pair of SM50s.


 I'd appreicate the help.  It could be a problem in my build environment,
as well -- the 3.1 installation i'm running was built locally (cross
compiled on a pentium4 running NetBSD 3.1).

 -johan