Re: Problems with netbsd-5 and MP SS20

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On Mar 14, 2010, at 19:59, matthew green wrote:
> yeah, netbsd-5 is broken for SMP and sparc.  -current is mostly  
> working,
> but there are some lingering issues to solve...
>
> i've an SS10 with 3 cpus (HS150 + 2x HS100) that hasn't been booted in
> over 5 years but it used to work fine back then..  at least, once pk  
> had
> fixed the mismatched cache sizes to work.
>
>
> i've been looking at trying to get the relevant SMP changes into  
> netbsd-5
> branch, but i have already given up attempting to do that for netbsd  
> 5.1.

  Okay.  I was mostly looking at updating a remotely-deployed (UP)  
sparc that's running 4.0_RC1.  If 5.0 UP works reliably, I think I may  
just stick to that rather than leave my "other" machine (which is UP  
anyway) running netbsd-4.

  Thanks for the info.  I will keep an eye on things and hope that  
this gets fixed at some point.  Sad to have a tri-proc build machine  
with only one processor working.  :-)

                  - Chris