Subject: Re: SPARCbook audio
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Christer Andersson <christer@a-son.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/16/2005 18:49:41
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:11:22PM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
>
> I have some problems with it, however.
>
> - It lacks IPSEC (but GENERIC lacks that, too, I just happen to use it.)
> - The system is very unstable, where it was rock-solid running 2.0_STABLE
> . during builds via nfs via WLAN it stops at different places with different
> error codes. Sometimes signal 4, sometimes signal 10, ...
> . during booting, most of the times the ifconfig -l command fails, the only
> time it did not fail was after a kernel panic, when it had to do fsck during boot.
> . sometimes it kernel-panicks, I haven't been able to copy down the messages,
> something to do with caches ... (Was something in the handling of the TurboSPARC
> CPU changed after 2.0? If it was mainly tested on a 3GX, the main difference
> to my 3TX is the microSPARC-II vs. TurboSPARC CPU.)
> - I can't seem to get the Xserver to run, it aborts with a bus error before opening
> the display.
I have no problems at all with X, and I didn't notice anything strange
while booting. I run root on nfs, that seems to work too. I am using
the userland that Michael provided at
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc
--
Christer Andersson
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