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Posted Feb 18, 2006 1:11 UTC (Sat) by freeio (guest, #9622) [Link]
If you look at Dave Miller's blog, he has the boot messages from a Niagra SMP box, and darn if it doesn't bring up all 32 (!) processors:
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2006/02/17...
This is fine progress. Considering how close to the vest Sun kept the details on the SPARC III processors, it is much better to see that Sun has opened up the specs on Niagra. But beyond that, the progress at making Linux run on it is rapid and impressive. Three cheers to the Linux kernel deveopers!
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Posted Feb 18, 2006 13:08 UTC (Sat) by dcoutts (subscriber, #5387) [Link]
> Neither is running perfectly yet. "The boot didn't go entirely swimmingly, however: Later in the process, the file system caused a serious problem called a kernel panic."
Well it looks like that was only because he didn't specify a root= argument when booting the kernel. It look like he was only trying to test the early boot process.
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Posted Feb 19, 2006 23:32 UTC (Sun) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]
Surely it's more likely that he doesn't have a working driver for the underlying SCSI controller or disk and therefore couldn't specify a root device.
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Posted Feb 19, 2006 23:52 UTC (Sun) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]
You need only look at the boot log to see that the kernel discovered his 4 SCSI disks and one ATAPI CDROM, as well as the four ethernet interfaces and various USB root hubs. It really is true that root= was not specified.
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Posted Feb 21, 2006 12:26 UTC (Tue) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
Indeed, he's now got a full Ubuntu system running on it.