Re: [gentoo-sparc] kernel-2.6.15-r4 (in)stability on U2-SMP, etc.

[Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:28 -0500, Jameel Akari wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> 
> > However, U2-SMP(2x450) is not.  As is the case with ALL 2.6.xx kernels,
> > 2.6.15-r4 cannot handle the sort of disk activity which portage requires
> 
> Just as a data point, you do realize that the 450MHz CPU was never 
> actually supported in the Ultra-2?  While it may boot, it wasn't made to 
> work together nor was it sold as an upgrade. You may be tripping on some 
> marginal timing issue.
> 
> If you have 400MHz/2MB CPUs sitting around it may be worth testing with 
> them to isolate that as a cause.
> 

As is too often the case, I mistyped.  The stable system is U60(2x450);
the unstable system is U2(2x400).  Thanks for catching this.

> 
> -- 
> #!/jameel/akari
> sleep 4800;
> make clean && make breakfast
Regards,
Ferris (who sometimes expects way too much ESP support from his readers)
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)

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