Hi! I have a Sun Fire V880 with eight CPUs, but CPU0 and CPU2 are disabled due to memory corruption in the corresponding cpu board. No problems with 2.6.28.9, but booting 2.6.29.1 fails. Last entry I see in the RSC console: Brought up 6 CPUs net_namespace: 1776 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 Testing NMI I grep'ed through the kernel source, I guess this line should actually read "Testing NMI watchdog", but the word "watchdog" is really missing. I haven't checked 2.6.29, but if need be, I could do. Here's the log output: ERROR: Power On Self Test Failed. Cause: CPU0 Bank 1 Dimm 3, J3200 side 1 ERROR: POST failed. Rebooting with command: boot Boot device: disk File and args: SILO Version 1.4.13 boot: broken Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.6.29 Loading initial ramdisk (5040244 bytes at 0xD000000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... \ PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.17.1 2005/04/11 14:28' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: Linux version 2.6.29.1 (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.3 20090117 (prerelease) (Debian 4.3.2-3) ) #3 SMP Mon Apr 20 17:58:05 CEST 2009 console [earlyprom0] enabled ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:2b:c3:e8 Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. Remapping the kernel... done. OF stdout device is: /pci@9,700000/ebus@1/rsc-console@1,3083f8 PROM: Built device tree with 148670 bytes of memory. Top of RAM: 0xd1ffb1a000, Total RAM: 0x5ffb0e000 Memory hole size: 835584MB [0000000360000000-fffff8b000400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1408/0 [0000000360000000-fffff8b000800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1409/0 [0000000360800000-fffff8b000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1410/0 [0000000360800000-fffff8b001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1411/0 [0000000361000000-fffff8b001400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1412/0 [0000000361000000-fffff8b001800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1413/0 [0000000361800000-fffff8b001c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1414/0 [0000000361800000-fffff8b002000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1415/0 [0000000362000000-fffff8b002400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1416/0 [0000000362000000-fffff8b002800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1417/0 [0000000362800000-fffff8b002c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1418/0 [0000000362800000-fffff8b003000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1419/0 [0000000363000000-fffff8b003400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1420/0 [0000000363000000-fffff8b003800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1421/0 [0000000363800000-fffff8b003c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1422/0 [0000000363800000-fffff8b004000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1423/0 [0000000380000000-fffff8b004400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1536/0 [0000000380000000-fffff8b004800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1537/0 [0000000380800000-fffff8b004c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1538/0 [0000000380800000-fffff8b005000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1539/0 [0000000381000000-fffff8b005400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1540/0 [0000000381000000-fffff8b005800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1541/0 [0000000381800000-fffff8b005c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1542/0 [0000000381800000-fffff8b006000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1543/0 [0000000382000000-fffff8b006400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1544/0 [0000000382000000-fffff8b006800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1545/0 [0000000382800000-fffff8b006c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1546/0 [0000000382800000-fffff8b007000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1547/0 [0000000383000000-fffff8b007400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1548/0 [0000000383000000-fffff8b007800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1549/0 [0000000383800000-fffff8b007c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1550/0 [0000000383800000-fffff8b008000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1551/0 [00000003a0000000-fffff8b008400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1664/0 [00000003a0000000-fffff8b008800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1665/0 [00000003a0800000-fffff8b008c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1666/0 [00000003a0800000-fffff8b009000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1667/0 [00000003a1000000-fffff8b009400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1668/0 [00000003a1000000-fffff8b009800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1669/0 [00000003a1800000-fffff8b009c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1670/0 [00000003a1800000-fffff8b00a000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1671/0 [00000003a2000000-fffff8b00a400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1672/0 [00000003a2000000-fffff8b00a800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1673/0 [00000003a2800000-fffff8b00ac00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1674/0 [00000003a2800000-fffff8b00b000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1675/0 [00000003a3000000-fffff8b00b400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1676/0 [00000003a3000000-fffff8b00b800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1677/0 [00000003a3800000-fffff8b00bc00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1678/0 [00000003a3800000-fffff8b00c000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1679/0 Zone PFN ranges: Normal 0x05800000 -> 0x068ffd8d Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[6] active PFN ranges 0: 0x05800000 -> 0x05900000 0: 0x06000000 -> 0x06100000 0: 0x06800000 -> 0x068ff7ff 0: 0x068ff800 -> 0x068ffd0a 0: 0x068ffd0c -> 0x068ffd7b 0: 0x068ffd7e -> 0x068ffd8d Booting Linux... Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 3005835 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) clocksource: mult[640000] shift[16] clockevent: mult[28f5c28] shift[32] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 4194304 (order: 12, 33554432 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 11, 16777216 bytes) Memory: 24901376k available (2992k kernel code, 1384k data, 208k init) [fffff80000000000,000000d1ffb1a000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 20.04 BogoMIPS (lpj=10021) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU 1: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) CPU 4: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) CPU 5: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) CPU 6: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) CPU 7: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) Brought up 6 CPUs net_namespace: 1776 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 Testing NMI Cheerio -- mail: adi@xxxxxxx http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver -- 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