Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults

[Barry Patrick Mulcahy <mulcahyb@student.cs.ucc.ie>]

Same problem with a dual proc Axil clone of the ss20,
running Debian 3.0 with various different kernels, we get lock ups
at init and xdm.

Currently using 2.4.20smp_1.0_sparc from http://osinvestor.com/sparc/
in single user mode.

root@eos> cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : ROSS HyperSparc RT625 or RT626
fpu             : ROSS HyperSparc combined IU/FPU
promlib         : Version 3 Revision 2
prom            : 2.19
type            : sun4m
ncpus probed    : 2
ncpus active    : 2
Cpu0Bogo        : 104.85
Cpu1Bogo        : 104.85
MMU type        : ROSS HyperSparc
contexts        : 4096
nocache total   : 5242880
nocache used    : 92160
CPU0            : online
CPU1            : online

320MB RAM (ie. bank 0,4,5,6,7 each with 64MB)

Note: We have 149.91 bogomips for UP Kernel