> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:40:15PM +0100, ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> > I just tried to compile a kernel on a similar machine (4/670, 4 CPUs,
> > 128MB RAM) but it do not manage to start the other cpus. Boot message:
> [...]
> > cpu0: booting secondary processors: cpu1 cpu2 cpu3
> > xcall(cpu1,0xf0261c98): couldn't ping cpus: cpu0 cpu2 cpu3
> > xcall(cpu1,0xf025bce0): couldn't ping cpus: cpu0 cpu2 cpu3

This seems to a problem with the GENERIC MP kernel. The tuned kernel
(SUN4M only, bunch of other drivers removed) that I've been using
works (but performance isn't too great).

I don't know what causes the GENERIC kernel failure.

-pk