BERTRAND Joël wrote: > 4/ The last 2.4 kernel that is _usable_ is the 2.4.21 if I remember. All > releases after this kernel are not usable for production workstations > (on sparc32 [that randomly crash with 'watchdog error'] _and_ sparc64 > [that randomly freeze without any message]). I haven't found any stable > kernel between 2.4.21 and 2.6.21-rc7. Thanks to Davem to the IOMMU/Sbus > patch.
I suspect that that is critically dependant on the version of the compiler (and possibly other toolchain elements) used for the kernel. Your earlier comment about optimisations might be relevant- has something changed in the compiler defaults or SPARC code generation during Sarge's lifetime? My experience is that a SuperSparc-based SMP SS20 is rock-solid with 2.4.27 as shipped. Compiling 2.4.3x for a sun4d- which should in principle work- sometimes results in a kernel that will run long enough to recompile itself, other times one of the CPUs locks up during init: I've not had time to try to track this down in greater detail but I'm fairly sure it's to do with the exact version of gcc etc. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
