Subject: Re: SPARCbook audio
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Christer Andersson <christer@a-son.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/16/2005 18:49:41
Hello,

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:11:22PM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> 
> I have some problems with it, however.
> 
> - It lacks IPSEC (but GENERIC lacks that, too, I just happen to use it.)
> - The system is very unstable, where it was rock-solid running 2.0_STABLE
>   . during builds via nfs via WLAN it stops at different places with different
>     error codes. Sometimes signal 4, sometimes signal 10, ...
>   . during booting, most of the times the ifconfig -l command fails, the only 
>     time it did not fail was after a kernel panic, when it had to do fsck during boot.
>   . sometimes it kernel-panicks, I haven't been able to copy down the messages,
>     something to do with caches ... (Was something in the handling of the TurboSPARC
>     CPU changed after 2.0? If it was mainly tested on a 3GX, the main difference
>     to my 3TX is the microSPARC-II vs. TurboSPARC CPU.)
> - I can't seem to get the Xserver to run, it aborts with a bus error before opening
>   the display.

I have no problems at all with X, and I didn't notice anything strange
while booting. I run root on nfs, that seems to work too. I am using
the userland that Michael provided at
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc


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Christer Andersson
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