Re: way forward for old sparc?

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 22:07 Uhr -0500 6.1.2009, Michael wrote:
>> Hm. Has the early crash mentioned in mid-November ("Sparc MP kernels
>> appear
>> broken") been fixed? When I tried two weeks ago, netbsd-5 sparc
>> kernels
>> were still crashing in flames really early. Since several people
>> volunteered to fix the problem in November, I never filed a PR.
>
>I's not been fixed but UP kernels work just fine.

Sure? From a 2009-01-08 netbsd-5 UP kernel, I get

<#0> ok boot netbsd5 -s
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/SUNW,fas/sd@0,0  File and args: netbsd5 -s
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15
>> (hf@Hochstuhl, Thu Aug 16 18:49:16 CEST 2007)
Booting netbsd5
3167464+73784+362856 [190256+180962]=0x3dac58
OBP version 3, revision 2.25 (plugin rev 2)
data fault: pc=0xf01bad5c addr=0x258 sfsr=3a6<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=5,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
data fault: pc=0xf01a44c8 addr=0x1ec sfsr=326<PERR=0,LVL=3,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
Level 15 Interrupt
<#2> ok

        hauke

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