Re: USIII/280R

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 1/4/11 5:25 AM, Anders Lindgren wrote:
> [snip]
> > Same here, NetBSD/sparc64 is every bit as stable as i386. I run it
> > almost exclusively on Netra T1 and X1 machines...about a dozen of them
> > at customer sites. They are rock solid.
> >
> > That's UltraSPARC-II of course.
> [snip]
>
> Hrrm? I had nothing but rock hard deadlocks (as in "power cycle the
> box") with my Enterprise 3000/3500, and eventually gave up around the
> time of 5.0 release[0]. Some time later there was a swirl of activity
> around UltraSPARC-III support, but in a private mail someone explained
> that there was little chance of any of that work improving the situation
> for USII. Has something significant happened for UltraSPARC-II SMP since?

  Quite a bit, actually.  But I myself am not running it on any 
multiprocessor machines.  I'm sorry; I should've been more specific 
about that.

> I'd love to try to get NetBSD onto it again, but I wasn't aware that
> USII SMP ever reached a state that was generally considered stable. Has
> anyone successfully run it on older SMP systems with > 2 CPUs?

  I have not, but many others have.  There seemed to have been a big 
push not too long ago, within the past year or so, and lots of bugs were 
fixed.  I hope to have time to try it on a multiprocessor machine soon.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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