In message <20030107034521.DA5EA1A@mail.bullers.net>, Jon Buller writes:
>In message <4938.1041902124@splode.eterna.com.au>, matthew green writes:
>
>>   4) kernel checks processors and is OK with my SM81 for cpu0 but
>>      doesn't like my SM71 for cpu1.  Doesn't use cpu1, but keeps
>>      quiet about it also.  (Solaris didn't mind this situation, and
>>      used both processors.)
>>
>>oh my, i didn't notice this earlier.  i wonder what will happen....
>>
>>i am guessing netbsd will get confused but might work.
>
>Well, I'll let you know when the build finishes.  (I made the
>mistake of doing a CVS update on the src tree this afternoon so I
>have a lot more to rebuild than just locore.s.)

Jan  6 21:05:43 ra syslogd: restart
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: [ using 302244 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd:     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd:     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: 
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: NetBSD 1.6L (RA) #17: Mon Jan  6 20:45:12 PST 2003
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd:     jon@ra.bullers.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/RA
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: total memory = 191 MB
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: avail memory = 173 MB
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: using 896 buffers containing 9892 KB of memory
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: bootpath: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-20
Jan  6 21:05:43 ra /netbsd: cpu0 at mainbus0: mid 8: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 85 MHz, on-chip FPU
Jan  6 21:05:44 ra /netbsd: cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (32 b/l): cache enabled
Jan  6 21:05:44 ra /netbsd: cpu1 at mainbus0: mid 10: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 75 MHz, on-chip FPU
Jan  6 21:05:44 ra /netbsd: cpu1: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (32 b/l): cache enabled
[ random standard deviced deleted... ]
Jan  6 21:05:47 ra /netbsd: cpu0: booting secondary processors: cpu1

And now...

load averages:  1.74,  0.82,  0.51                                     21:23:06
51 processes:  1 runnable, 47 sleeping, 1 zombie, 2 on processor
CPU states: 99.5% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  0.2% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Memory: 32M Act, 2152K Wired, 11M Exec, 7972K File, 136M Free
Swap: 192M Total, 192M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  334 jon       63    0   692K 1284K RUN/1      1:35 98.74% 98.34% bash
  332 jon       62    0   692K 1284K CPU/0      1:24 97.21% 96.88% bash
  306 jon        2    0  3344K 3964K select/1   0:07  0.63%  0.63% Xsun
    5 root      18    0     0K   29M syncer/1    ???  0.59%  0.59% [ioflush]
  335 jon       28    0   224K  976K CPU/1      0:00  0.10%  0.10% top
    3 root     -18    0     0K   29M pgdaem/1    ???  0.00%  0.00% [pagedaemon]
  294 root       2    0  1996K 3724K select/0   0:36  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  316 jon        2    0   484K 2020K select/0   0:29  0.00%  0.00% ssh
  205 root       2    0   396K 1460K select/1   0:22  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  305 jon       10    0    60K 1116K wait/1     0:02  0.00%  0.00% xinit
  304 jon       10    0   208K  776K wait/0     0:02  0.00%  0.00% sh
  317 jon        2    0  1104K 2920K select/1   0:02  0.00%  0.00% xterm
  313 jon        2    0  1084K 2840K select/1   0:02  0.00%  0.00% xterm
  252 root       2    0  1796K 3108K select/0   0:01  0.00%  0.00% cupsd
  309 jon        2    0   712K 2108K select/1   0:01  0.00%  0.00% blackbox
  188 ntpd      18  -12   792K 1808K pause/1    0:00  0.00%  0.00% ntpd
  246 root      18    0    84K  684K pause/0    0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd
  278 jon       10    0   756K 1336K wait/1     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  318 jon       10    0   692K 1284K wait/0     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  314 jon       10    0   692K 1284K wait/1     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  311 jon       10    0    60K  944K nanosl/0   0:00  0.00%  0.00% unclutter
  269 root      10    0   248K  660K nanosl/1   0:00  0.00%  0.00% cron
    1 root      10    0    76K  640K wait/1     0:00  0.00%  0.00% init


So in answer to your fears, NetBSD/sparc appears to be just fine
with non-identical MBus modules.  Many thanks, mrg and pk!  This
is way cool.  Now if I could only get my PC532 to do this... 8^)

Jon