Re: Ultra-5 freezing
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:03:40AM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> > BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore
> > (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on
> > all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_ sun4u). Now, I run NetBSD or Solaris 10. But
> > FreeBSD and OpenBSD run fine also.
>
> I have Ultra 5 in active use. It used to suffer from random
> hard lockups/hangs, but those issues disappeared with recent Linux
> mainline kernels (I think after 3.12 or so).
my suspection is that mainly the UP systems with the wheezy kernel are
hanging sometimes over the time without any output. Unfortunately on a 480R
(with 2 CPUs) newer vanilla kernels (tested up to 3.17-rc1) are crashing already during boot.
Greetings
Hermann
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