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From: Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test1-ac4 (was: 2.3.99-pre9 not booting to completion)
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> 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.

> 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

Cheers,
Anton
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