On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:23:24AM -0600, Johan A.van Zanten wrote:
>> At this point, my best guess is that there is a serious problem in the MP
>> NetBSD 3.1 code on sparc, at least for the 50 MHz SuperSPARC CPUs i use.
>
> Hmm... I have a pair of machines, each with a pair of SM61s and they've
> both been rock solid with 3.0 and 3.1. Both have uptimes of ~26 days and
> are fairly busy serving DNS, DHCP, ntp, Kerberos, etc. They're both running
> a custom kernel, but whilst upgrading them and before building a custom
> kernel they ran GENERIC.MP.
>
> I have a pair of SM50s in my parts box and can bring up another SS20 to see
> if I can reproduce the problem. Before I got the SM61s, I did have one of
> the machines mentioned above running 3.0 stably with an MP kernel and a
> pair of SM50s.

I'll have to fire up my SS5, but I wasn't able to compile any bootable
kernels natively. I had to cross-compile.

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