Subject: Re: sun4m install problem (kernel panic)
To: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/16/1996 21:38:17
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:57:04 -0400
Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Does your SS10 have a SuperSPARC processor? Does it have a "MXCC" (1-MB
> level-2 "ecache")? If it is a hypersparc, it won't work. If it is a super-
> sparc without a MXCC, it also won't work under NetBSD-1.2 unless you add
> a hack to the kernel to disable the cache...[perhaps this should go into
> the first 1.2 patch...]
I have such a hack in my local tree ... since I have one of the pesky
lame SS10s :-)
Aaron: want me to just commit it? The option is called
"SUN4M_NO_CACHE_ENABLE". It does the obvious thing :-)
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