On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:35:04AM -0400, Matt Rose wrote: > > This is not really a debian problem, but I'm hoping somebody here can help > me out. > > I decided to get on the bleeding edge of kernels and try to install > 2.4.0pre8 on my sparc box at home. Though I have a lot of experience > with > compiling a kernel on i386, I've never done it before for a sparc. When > I boot into my new kernel I get this error, does anyone know what this > means? > > SILO boot: linux4 > Uncompressing image... > bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, > init_bootmem(spfn[1ea],bpfn[1ea],mlpfn[fed]) > free_bootmem: base[0] size[fb4000] > free_bootmem: base[fb5000] size[13000] > free_bootmem: base[fcc000] size[21000] > reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[1ea000] > reserve_bootmem: base[1ea000] size[200] > Booting Linux... > mem_init: Calling free_all_bootmem().
It means that sparc support in test8 isn't working so well. I'm using test9 (and getting ready to try test10-pre1) on UltraSPARC, which works pretty well. I'm not sure how well sparc32 is working right now. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
