> > On a Sparc 5 it seems that both 2.3.99-pre9 and 2.4.0-test1-ac4
> > fail on mounting /proc during init.
> >  2.3.99-pre9 did not output anything
> >  2.4.0-test1-ac4 invokes a watchdog:
> 
> Im am in the middle of a rather large sparc32 cleanup. I have held a lot
> of my patches (sbus/iommu rewrite, highmem support) back until I fix
> the caching stuff. Hopefully sparc32 will back to working condition soon.

Thanks Anton for the optimistic feedback ... I felt like I was the only
one seeing ghosts (the 'ok ' prompt that is :)

> > This machine has once run 2.3.99-pre3 for a day. I recall that it had
> > an empty /proc/openprom as opposed to 2.2.1{4,5} kernels.
> 
> /proc/openprom is now a filesystem. You can mount it from your /etc/fstab: 
> none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0

Shall I try that on the vanilla-ac source tree or do you recommend to rather
wait for your commits?

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