On Friday 16 January 2009 08:32:17 am you wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:58:32PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: > > After Sam's insw/... fix, todays 2.6.29-rc1+git boots up and seems fo > > work on E3500 with 2 USII-400's. However, the CPU has suddenly became > > unknown (it was known in 2.6.27): > > > > [ 136.434591] CPU: Unknown chip, impl[0x17] vers[0x11] > > [ 136.434649] FPU: Unknown chip, impl[0x17] vers[0x11] > > Did you expect: > CPU: TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) > FPU: UltraSparc II integrated FPU > > Ohh, I see why. > The sucker that updated kernel/cpu.c did a poor job doing so. > (For reference: it was me) > > I assume manufacturer_info can be indexed but it needs to be searched. > Will likely fix tonight if you do not beat me. > > I think I know why I did this mistake, as I really did not make up > my mind what approach to use and ended up mixing it. > > [For the record I do not have a sparc to test it on. > My SUN Blade 100 are cauing me troubles..] if its locking up regularly try appending ide=nodma to the kernel line. Dennis
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