Re: USIII/280R

["Volker A. Brandt" <vab%bb-c.de@localhost>]

> Hrrm? I had nothing but rock hard deadlocks (as in "power cycle the box")
> with my Enterprise 3000/3500, and eventually gave up around the time of
> 5.0 release[0]. Some time later there was a swirl of activity around
> UltraSPARC-III support, but in a private mail someone explained that there
> was little chance of any of that work improving the situation for USII.
> Has something significant happened for UltraSPARC-II SMP since?
>
> My Enterprise is a 6-way box and I remember some people claiming that they
> had no trouble with dual-cpu systems at the time, but killing the 6-cpu
> machine was dead easy. Just run build.sh and wait a couple of hours. Or
> run build.sh -j7 and wait less than 9 minutes. But maybe those problems
> are somehow specific to old SBus Enterprise boxen... :-/
>
> I'd love to try to get NetBSD onto it again, but I wasn't aware that USII
> SMP ever reached a state that was generally considered stable. Has anyone
> successfully run it on older SMP systems with > 2 CPUs?
>
> [0] IIRC official 5.0 was the last attempt I made.

I am trying to cross-compile current sparc64 under Solaris 10.
This is currently broken in many ways.  Once that works again,
I'll also be trying it on an 8-way E4000.


Regards -- Volker
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