Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Cc: Jameel Akari <jakari@×××××××.com>, sparclinux@×××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] kernel-2.6.15-r4 (in)stability on U2-SMP, etc.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:02:39
Message-Id: 1140012094.4844.49.camel@polylepis.inforead.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] kernel-2.6.15-r4 (in)stability on U2-SMP, etc. by Jameel Akari
1 On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:28 -0500, Jameel Akari wrote:
2 > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Ferris McCormick wrote:
3 >
4 > > However, U2-SMP(2x450) is not. As is the case with ALL 2.6.xx kernels,
5 > > 2.6.15-r4 cannot handle the sort of disk activity which portage requires
6 >
7 > Just as a data point, you do realize that the 450MHz CPU was never
8 > actually supported in the Ultra-2? While it may boot, it wasn't made to
9 > work together nor was it sold as an upgrade. You may be tripping on some
10 > marginal timing issue.
11 >
12 > If you have 400MHz/2MB CPUs sitting around it may be worth testing with
13 > them to isolate that as a cause.
14 >
15
16 As is too often the case, I mistyped. The stable system is U60(2x450);
17 the unstable system is U2(2x400). Thanks for catching this.
18
19 >
20 > --
21 > #!/jameel/akari
22 > sleep 4800;
23 > make clean && make breakfast
24 Regards,
25 Ferris (who sometimes expects way too much ESP support from his readers)
26 --
27 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
28 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)

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