Ludovic Courtès wrote: > So, I now have a 2.6.14 SMP kernel I can boot from. On my SS20, it > doesn't even get to the point of spawning `init'. I get a number of the > following messages at boot time: > > esp0: Resetting scsi bus > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > esp0: DMA error a4400302 Are you using multiple drives? I've seen this problem before when using multiple drives, even with a 2.6 UP kernel, but I've not had a problem when only actively using one drive. > And finally, I get spinlock debugging messages followed by a stack trace > telling that something went wrong ("BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#2", > etc.), and nothing more. I guess I'm going to have to capture the > console output via a serial line in order to provide you with meaningful > data. Try configuring the kernel with spinlock debugging turned off. > The machine has two SuperSPARC 390Z50. In your original message you > mentioned that support for SuperSPARC II was relatively stable, so maybe > this just means that support for this older SuperSPARC flavor is not yet > in such a good shape? ;-) I think you're almost there. I don't see any reason why a pair of older SuperSPARCs wouldn't work, but I don't have any to test against. Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html