Re: E10000 available for development (trying to)

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:23:58PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Submissions wrote:
> > > Dear lists,
> > >
> > > I am trying to get approval from my company to make a Sun Enterprise
> > > 10000 available to developers interested in the challenge to get linux
> > > to work on it.  I am posting this to gather some feedback. Any comments
> > > (or even better offers to help) could give the project a chance to
> > > exist.
> >
> > I'd be interested in trying to get 2.6 booting on it. I know that 2.4 at
> > one time did work, but I'm not sure how well things work now.
> 
> Here is the boot log from 2.6:

Is this with my images?

> <#28> ok boot net -p
> Boot device: /sbus@5d,0/SUNW,qfe@0,8c00000  File and args: -p
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 53ec00
> PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.181 2003/08/15 11:02
> Linux version 2.6.3-sparc64-smp (root@zachery) (gcc version 3.3.3
> (Debian)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 25 17:14:37 EST 2004
> ARCH: SUN4U
> Remapping the kernel... done.
> Booting Linux...
> Ethernet address: 00:00:be:a6:b5:47
> On node 0 totalpages: 521890
>   DMA zone: 521890 pages, LIFO batch:8
>   Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
>   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: -p
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 65536 bytes)
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Memory: 4128384k available (3728k kernel code, 1368k data, 232k init)
> [fffff80000000000,00000000ffcea000]
> Calibrating delay loop... 797.90 BogoMIPS
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> Starting migration thread for cpu 28
> 
> and it hangs here... :/
> 
> Fabio
> 
> -- 
> <user> fajita: step one
> <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log.
> <user> fajita: step two
> <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.

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