On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:48:09PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote:
> every kernel after 2.4.0-test5 hangs my sparc10
> at the same spot. Has anyone looked into this?
Well, that's when highmen support was introduced into sparc32, right?
> Uncompressing image...
> PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
> bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks,
> init_bootmem(spfn[121],bpfn[121],mlpfn[c000])
> free_bootmem: base[0] size[c000000]
> reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[121000]
> reserve_bootmem: base[121000] size[1800]
>
> the last kernel I tried was cvs'ed from vger last
> night. I beleive it was 2.4.1-pre2.
That's quite the same output I get. However, supplying mem=128M
(I have got 128MB) at least allows me to boot up with about
25MB of RAM (sparc has holes...):
CVS_Root DIFF_f REMOVE scsi-gui
jbglaw@sparcling:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=/dev/sda1 mem=128M console=ttya
jbglaw@sparcling:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 26564 21720 4844 0 720 12104
-/+ buffers/cache: 8896 17668
Swap: 49840 0 49840
jbglaw@sparcling:~$ uname -a
Linux sparcling 2.4.0-test12 #2 SMP Sat Dec 16 02:25:25 CET 2000 sparc unknown
It's a SparcStation 10 w/ 2 CPUs.
Anton, do you have any clue where changes could have broke SS10 support?
MfG, JBG
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