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sparc10 with 512M of RAM hangs on boot

DISCUSSION Ron Calderon 3 participants 3 messages Jan 13, 2001 – Jan 14, 2001

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every kernel after 2.4.0-test5 hangs my sparc10
at the same spot. Has anyone looked into this?
here is screen output:

SPARCstation 10 (1 X 390Z50), No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.12, 512 MB memory installed, Serial
#6299671.
Ethernet address

Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:c File
and args:
SILO boot:
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.

ron

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#1 lore raw
Quoted 2 lines · Ron Calderon

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?

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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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every kernel after 2.4.0-test5 hangs my sparc10
at the same spot. Has anyone looked into this?
here is screen output:

Yep I know about this but need to iron out another bug with the patches before I commit them.

Anton
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