> on 2/18/01 6:32 PM, Theo de Raadt at deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org wrote:
> 
>> I have never heard of such an incompat.  I ran OpenBSD on one for
>> quite some time.  Works great.
> 
> That's what I've always been told and why I was shocked by it. I looked into
> this very carefully before spending on the chip and this was the least of my
> expectations... 
> 
> I have had no problems with Solaris - as expected.

Not that it helps you, but I ran NetBSD up until 1.2.1 on an old SPARCstation 2
with a Weitek (note correct spelling) PowerUP chip in it, and it ran fine -
X11 and everything.

It's very odd that you're having problems with it.  So all of these programs
produce kernel panics?  (Illegal Instruction or Alignment Fault)

Do you know how to work with DDB, the kernel debugger?  Getting a stack
traceback would probably help the Powers That Be figure out what's going on.

It might be useful to try and compile a new kernel, just for fun ... and
enable all the DEBUG ("makeoptions  DEBUG="-g"" and "options DEBUG") and
the DIAGNOSTIC ("options  DIAGNOSTIC") stuff in it.  That way, you can
provide more information about the kernel panics, if they keep happening.

	- Greg