CPU version register and a problem

[spa...@bsdchicks.com]

As per request in the boot messages, here's an unknown CPU:

0x3e001624000507

prtdiag for my Sun-Blade-1500 identifies the CPU as:
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi (mask: 2.4 cache: 1MB speed: 1062MHz)

Now for the problem. Actually two problems during installation of
5.2.1-RELEASE.

1) Root filesystem needs to be given manually. No big problem,
"ufs:/dev/md0" does the trick.
2) After the kernel has booted the system stops working after a short
period of time. Even the prompt for a root filesystem will not respond
if I wait too long. I know this is probably related to UltraSPARC III
not being supported yet, but I'd like to help out. *grin*

Greetings,

DocWilco
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[dwh...@gumbysoft.com]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, DocWilco wrote:

> 2) After the kernel has booted the system stops working after a short
> period of time. Even the prompt for a root filesystem will not respond
> if I wait too long. I know this is probably related to UltraSPARC III
> not being supported yet, but I'd like to help out. *grin*

You can help by infiltrating Sun and extract the UltraSPARC III
documentation they have been withholding. :-) Without it, US3 will not be
supported.

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