Re: Anyone know any sparc kernel tricks?
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:35:04AM -0400, Matt Rose wrote:
>
> This is not really a debian problem, but I'm hoping somebody here can help
> me out.
>
> I decided to get on the bleeding edge of kernels and try to install
> 2.4.0pre8 on my sparc box at home. Though I have a lot of experience
> with
> compiling a kernel on i386, I've never done it before for a sparc. When
> I boot into my new kernel I get this error, does anyone know what this
> means?
>
> SILO boot: linux4
> Uncompressing image...
> bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks,
> init_bootmem(spfn[1ea],bpfn[1ea],mlpfn[fed])
> free_bootmem: base[0] size[fb4000]
> free_bootmem: base[fb5000] size[13000]
> free_bootmem: base[fcc000] size[21000]
> reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[1ea000]
> reserve_bootmem: base[1ea000] size[200]
> Booting Linux...
> mem_init: Calling free_all_bootmem().
It means that sparc support in test8 isn't working so well. I'm using
test9 (and getting ready to try test10-pre1) on UltraSPARC, which works
pretty well. I'm not sure how well sparc32 is working right now.
Ben
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