Hi,

Ah, interesting data point.  I'll pull out my Supersparc processor over
the next few days and see if that makes a difference.

Do you have a supersparc or supersparc II?

cheers

bruce


On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005.09.05 14:24:01 +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> | Hi,
> | 
> | I have both a SS4/110mhz, ie, a microsparc II, and a SS20 with 
> | a collection of different hypersparc processors.
> | 
> | On the SS4 I get the Bad pAUX_base complaint when starting a program
> | somewhat often.  On the cron job that I run every 10 minutes I'll get
> | the complaint a dozen or so times a day.
> | 
> | The other problem, though it might be the same, is that /bin/sh
> | cores pretty often.
> | 
> | Take the hard disk out of the SS4 and drop it in the SS20 and the
> | problem goes away.  The SS20 is rock solid, the ss4 was never quite so
> | solid.
> | 
> | My conclusion from the above would be that there is something
> | ever so slightly special about the Microsparc II which NetBSD
> | is not quite getting right.  No I don't have an idea beyond that.
> 
> I don't think so. My dual SuperSPARC SS20 shows 'Bad pAUX_base' and
> dumps core a frequently too. So frequently that I can't use it :)
> 
> 		-- Rui Paulo



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