I (sort of) revived my E3500. TODC batteries are empty but I programmed new nvram contents and started it up. Last it ran probably 4.1, 4.2 had some blk-mq trouble. Updated to 4.9-rc6+git and got a boot crash. Will try to narrow it but here is the full dmesg if it rings any bells: PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 3.2.30 2002/10/25 14:03' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: Linux version 4.9.0-rc6-00124-gded9b5d (mroos@korvits) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-1) ) #71 SMP Wed Nov 23 20:54:50 EET 2016 debug: ignoring loglevel setting. bootconsole [earlyprom0] enabled ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 08:00:20:b6:ee:e2 MM: PAGE_OFFSET is 0xfffff80000000000 (max_phys_bits == 40) MM: VMALLOC [0x0000000100000000 --> 0x0000060000000000] MM: VMEMMAP [0x0000060000000000 --> 0x00000c0000000000] Kernel: Using 5 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. Remapping the kernel... done. OF stdout device is: /central@1f,0/fhc@0,f8800000/zs@0,902000:a PROM: Built device tree with 186014 bytes of memory. Top of RAM: 0xffcf4000, Total RAM: 0xff8c2000 Memory hole size: 4MB Allocated 16384 bytes for kernel page tables. Zone ranges: Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000ffcf3fff] Movable zone start for each node Early memory node ranges node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000ff7ddfff] node 0: [mem 0x00000000ffc00000-0x00000000ffcd1fff] node 0: [mem 0x00000000ffce2000-0x00000000ffcf3fff] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000ffcf3fff] On node 0 totalpages: 523361 Normal zone: 4093 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 0 pages reserved Normal zone: 523361 pages, LIFO batch:15 Booting Linux... CPU CAPS: [flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,mul32,div32,v8plus] CPU CAPS: [vis] percpu: Embedded 10 pages/cpu @fffff800ff000000 s38208 r8192 d35520 u1048576 pcpu-alloc: s38208 r8192 d35520 u1048576 alloc=1*4194304 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 519268 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro ignore_loglevel PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 32768 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Sorting __ex_table... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000000000 tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fffff80000402000 \|/ ____ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ swapper(0): Oops [#1] CPU: 6 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.9.0-rc6-00124-gded9b5d #71 task: 0000000000a1ddc0 task.stack: 0000000000a0c000 TSTATE: 0000009980e01600 TPC: 00000000006c1f24 TNPC: 00000000006c1f28 Y: 00000016 Not tainted TPC: <__list_add+0x4/0xe0> g0: 000000000129e650 g1: 0000000000aa9f58 g2: 0000000000a574e0 g3: 000000000007e09f g4: 0000000000a1ddc0 g5: 0000000000000000 g6: 0000000000a0c000 g7: 000000000007e09e o0: 0000000000515f84 o1: fffff800ff3de000 o2: 000000000001e1c0 o3: 0000000000a0f968 o4: 0000000000000100 o5: 0000000000000200 sp: 0000000000a0f171 ret_pc: 00000000004a7d04 RPC: <trace_hardirqs_off+0x4/0x20> l0: 000000000129ddb8 l1: 00000000009ad178 l2: 0000000000a32400 l3: 0000000000000001 l4: 0000000000a18338 l5: 0000000000000006 l6: 000000000129e000 l7: 000000000129e1d8 i0: 0000060001fe7ba0 i1: 0000000000aa9b70 i2: 0000000000000000 i3: 0000000000a1ddc0 i4: fffff800ff3de000 i5: 0000000000000000 i6: 0000000000a0f221 i7: 0000000000515ff0 I7: <free_hot_cold_page+0x130/0x1e0> Call Trace: [0000000000515ff0] free_hot_cold_page+0x130/0x1e0 [0000000000517f04] __free_pages+0x24/0x60 [0000000000a6ece0] __free_pages_bootmem+0xb0/0xc0 [0000000000a728f8] free_all_bootmem+0x11c/0x17c [0000000000a68794] mem_init+0x20/0xb0 [0000000000a62818] start_kernel+0x208/0x41c [0000000000a640fc] start_early_boot+0x274/0x284 [00000000008ca18c] tlb_fixup_done+0x4c/0x60 [0000000000000000] (null) Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Caller[0000000000515ff0]: free_hot_cold_page+0x130/0x1e0 Caller[0000000000517f04]: __free_pages+0x24/0x60 Caller[0000000000a6ece0]: __free_pages_bootmem+0xb0/0xc0 Caller[0000000000a728f8]: free_all_bootmem+0x11c/0x17c Caller[0000000000a68794]: mem_init+0x20/0xb0 Caller[0000000000a62818]: start_kernel+0x208/0x41c Caller[0000000000a640fc]: start_early_boot+0x274/0x284 Caller[00000000008ca18c]: tlb_fixup_done+0x4c/0x60 Caller[0000000000000000]: (null) Instruction DUMP: 900a20ff 01000000 9de3bf50 <d85ea008> 80a30019 2268000b d85e4000 11002751 15002751 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- 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