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

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