On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:45:33AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I know its a bit unlikely but is anyone here running SMP Sparc64 Linux > > on Sun hardware? I've working on a dual CPU E220R. I can compile a > > uni-processor Sparc64 kernel which runs correctly but the SMP version > > fails to boot fully. It gets to init and then complains that it can't > > fork(). > > I'm running it on: > > wildfire@ftoomsh:~$ uname -a > Linux ftoomsh 2.2.15-pre13 #1 SMP Mon Mar 6 01:14:26 EST 2000 sparc unknown > wildfire@ftoomsh:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. - SuperSparc 50 > fpu : SuperSparc on-chip FPU > promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 > prom : 2.14 > type : sun4m > ncpus probed : 4 > ncpus active : 4 > Cpu0Bogo : 49.86 > Cpu1Bogo : 49.97 > Cpu2Bogo : 49.97 > Cpu3Bogo : 49.97 > MMU type : TI Viking/MXCC > invall : 0 > invmm : 0 > invrnge : 0 > invpg : 0 > contexts : 65536 > CPU0 : online > CPU1 : online > CPU2 : online > CPU3 : online
Hmmm I thought sun4m is a sparc32 instead of sparc64, oh well maybe I'm still on crack. > We have a sparc64 machine with 20 CPUs, of which one boots. Unfortunately > it requires a 3-phase power supply which are becoming harder and harder > to find within UTS. Same here as well, it's a sparccenter 2000, it's sun4d(?) so it's sparc32 right? > Every now and then someone has a go on it to get it booting multi-CPU, you > are welcome to have a play if you like. Email me off-list. > > Anand > > -- > `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. > When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never > leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada wim -- Hi! I'm the infamous .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
