RE: sparc32 2.4.21-pre5 kernel debs
Hi Rob and everyone,
I was about to give up running the 2.4 kernel on my SS20 with dual
HyperSparc 150s but I downloaded the 2.4.21-pre5 from your site to try some
more testing. I can say that I wasn't expecting much success with all my
past failures so imagine my suprise when not only did it get to booting the
kernel on the first attempt, but it also passed init with no problems. I've
rebooted the machine a couple of times and can report only one hang on init,
which is great!
But one question though, why does it appear that 2.4 is noticably slower
than 2.2? I've seen this on other sparcs when I tried using the 2.4 kernel,
but I was wondering does anybody know what is causing this? And why exactly
does /proc/cpuinfo show the HyperSparcs as 100s and not 150s? I'd like to
try and configure a test of the difference it takes to start apache with 2.4
versus 2.2 and then the next test would to actually test the performance of
the system
Just wondering,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Radez [mailto:rob@osinvestor.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:46 PM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: sparc32 2.4.21-pre5 kernel debs
I'm currently uploading 2.4.21-pre5 kernel debs for sparc32, UP and SMP,
to http://osinvestor.com/sparc/debs/ that will hopefully boot this time
on SMP. If they're still too big I'll try to modularize more stuff, in
which case more people will likely need an initrd. pre5 UP boots fine
here, with a patch that I mailed off to sparclinux@vger.kernel.org. I
make no promises on machines out of my control though.
Regards,
Rob Radez
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