Re: [gentoo-sparc] another hypersparc smp question ...
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:04:48PM -0400, Heitzso wrote:
> I've gone to the 'these kernels work' page and
> it would appear that a 2.4.23-pre5 would work in
> SMP mode on my dual ROSS Hypersparcs ss20, but it
> still goes out to lunch during the boot up
> sequence. (512M RAM)
I'll look at whether that kernel has a needed patch. If not I'll send
it to you (this is the context table alignment patch).
> I've gotten my vmlinux size down to 2,365,108
> but am not sure that I'm not running out of
> memory. Anyone know what the limit is? And
2.5MiB (2621440 bytes). This is a SILO limit and you'll be told if
the image is too large.
> I'm wondering how can off loading builtins to modules
> help if the modules have to be loaded into memory
> at the same time anyway. Don't modules
> count towards the memory limit block?
No, it's a boot time limit.
> I noticed a reference to stripping the
> kernel. Is this necessary? Useful? And if so,
> what's the command so I can man on it and learn
> how to use it.
Please do not strip sparc32 kernels. This will cause them to fail in
strange ways.
> Should I be falling back to an old 2.2.X series
> kernel for sparc32 hypersparc SMP? I'm wanting to
If you want reliability, yes.
> I'm also wondering if I am hanging on a console/ttyS0
> cross up. Right now I'm recompiling without prom console
> and without framebuffer support. I've also sym linked
> /dev/console over to /dev/ttyS0 and am _not_ using
> devfs. I'm running headless over ttya.
I do not know what documents still say that this is correct but they
should be burned. /dev/console is major 5 minor 1 and should not be a
symlink to anything.
> Any pointers would be appreciated. I've googled
> on most word combos but am not seeing recent
> references to the hypersparc/smp combo.
It works with 2.2, very well. It works somewhat on 2.4. It does not
work at all in 2.6. We have users who work on it and with it. This
is a supported hardware configuration.
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