Subject: Re: Ultra 10 stability.
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/19/2002 15:49:46
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:56:08PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> What CPU is that? My U5 @ 270 MHz is realy stable running -current, but my
> U60 @ 360 MHz has problems. Sometimes these show up as RED state exceptions
> on the serial console - but then firmware is hosed, so maybe with a real
> console it wouldn't even get to printing the message.

mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Ultra-5_10
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi @ 440 MHz, version 0 FPU
cpu0: 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 2048K external (64 b/l)

> Both run pretty stable on 1.6.

This was having problems with 1.6 initially, so I upgraded to -current.
Solaris 8 was ok a few months ago, so I am more or less sure the hardware
is ok.
Would a 32bit kernel fair better?
Thanks.

-Andrew