On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:18, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. It's fairly easy to set up on another Debian box if you follow the instructions. (this is how I do all my sparc installs) If you need a hand, email me. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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
