On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:11:49AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > 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. It gave a few strange errors. I read somewhere on a debian forum that they did not expect the CD based install to work and recommended a network based setup. So I'm planning to do this. It requires RARP (or DHCP), tftp and I think one more thing. I just ran out of time when playing with it. The box caused me some troubles when I received it: - Power supply managed to get it running only once, then it died - Of the three RAM blocks two was faulty so I have only 256 MB left :-( - I never managed to get the monitor to display anything But for my purpose - to do some rudimentary kernel tests that will suffice. Sam -- 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
