Re: Anyone know any sparc kernel tricks?
Hmm, OK. I'll try test9, and see if that works any better then...
The original reason I was upgrading to 2.4 was that the 2.2.17 that I got
with potato is extremely flakey on the sun4c platform that I have. Does
anyone have any kernels that work well with the SS2, that don't die after
a day?
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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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