From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9PAFeP31501 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:15:40 -0700 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (a1as16-p224.stg.tli.de [195.252.192.224]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9PAFVD31498 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:15:31 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f9PAEok01686; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:14:50 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:14:50 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: nick@snowman.net, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Origin 200 Message-ID: <20011025121450.A1644@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20011025010425.C2045@mail.muni.cz> <20011025103333.E2045@mail.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025103333.E2045@mail.muni.cz>; from xhejtman@mail.muni.cz on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:33:33AM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:33:33AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:23:00PM -0400, nick@snowman.net wrote: > > Getting it running 64bit shouldn't be *too* bad, however there are some > > revs of some chips on the MB which linux currently can't deal with, and > > noone is quite sure 1. what revs, 2. why, or 3. anything > > usefull. . Could you send a hinv -v from the prom? Boot logs would > > also be usefull (so I can tell if we are haveing the exact same problem, > > or just similar ones) > > >> hinv -v > IP27 Node Board, Module 1, Slot MotherBoard > ASIC HUB Rev 3, 90 MHz, (nasid 0) [...] Pretty much a standard Origin. I suspect the problem might be related to machines which only have a single physical CPU, that was the only common thing between all the Origins on which Linux fails. And indeed I don't think we ever used such a small configuration for testing at SGI ... Nick, did you observe any interesting differences to your failing Origin configuration? Btw, Origin UP kernel is definately broken ... Ralf