Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/31/06 00:08, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > While this patch did not help, I am now able to boot the newer Solaris
> > kernels on this system.
> >
> > What I did:
> >
> > I did replace the 2 Opteron 242 by 2 Opteron 275 borrowed from AMD.
> >
> > So it looks like newer Solaris versions have problems with older
> > Opteron chips. I believe that this is womething that needs to be solved.
>
> Interesting. I can't explain why patching ao_model_limit to 0 did not
> work - it certainly does in the lab.
>
> From an earlier mail your cpus report as:
>
> cpu0: x86 (AuthenticAMD family 15 model 5 step 1 clock 1600 MHz)
>
> From the AMD revision guide that seems to be revision SH-B3 which
> is indeed and old revision (only SH-B0 is earlier). I'm sure we
> have some old chip systems around so I'll try it out in the lab
> sometime.
If this would help, I could try to read what's "printed" on the old
CPUs, they are currently on a jewel box (untill I need to return the
borrowed CPUs from AMD).
Jörg
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