Hi. On Friday 22 November 2002 18:13, Emanuel Schmid wrote: > hi > > i know that smp and 2.4 on sun4m is a problem and that some people here > don't like question about this but i'm asking anyway assuming that there > are some that actually run 2.4 with smp on ss10.
I use 2.4.18 on my SS20 (2 Ross Hypersparc 125 MHz, 196 MB). Sometimes (not very often) the machine freezes for a while when X is starting during the boot process (network alive at that moment). But overall, it works fine. > i tried several versions and flavours of 2.4 on my ss10 now and there was > always the same problem: the kernel starts without a problem until it > starts init. then the system just stops without any error or something in > this way. sometimes the "INIT..." message is shown, sometimes not. > if i set init=/bin/sh at silo i normally get the shell, i can do ls, but > ps puts the system to sleep again. Hmm. I recently baught a VSIMM for the onboard high resolution graphics. With that module installed, I have the same problem: everything ok in the beginning, but when init starts ... When I remove the module and connect the monitor to the SBUS graphics, the SS20 works fine again. And when I remove the SBUS card and install the VSIMM, I get an SBUS error when init should start. > sending a break to the sleeping system (via serial console) shows no > reaction, but as i'm somewhat green on sparcs, i don't know if that > means anything. I did not try that. > with 2.21smp everything works fine, so i assumed the hardware works. also > replacing the hyperSparc with an SM100 does not change anything. Did not test kernel 2.2. > the hyperSparc module runs at 125Mhz with 1024k cache and there are 160meg > of mem in. > > does anybody know this problem? > has anybody an idea what i could try next? > is there a mailing list for sparc/sun4m kernel problems (could not find > one...)? > > thanks a lot > emanuel Which graphics on your SS10? Might that be a hint? Regards, Hartwig
