[SunRescue] Sparc 10 and SM512 Module

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Wed Jun 7 21:29:30 CDT 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earl Baugh [mailto:earl at baugh.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:51 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Sparc 10 and SM512 Module
> 
> Got a question.  Has anybody played with the Sun SM512 module 
> (501-2780)?  
> It's a dual CPU mbus module (covers one SBUS slot....about the size of
> a dual wide CG3 card...)
> 
> I got one from an e-bay auction, and put it in my SS10 this evening.  
> Machine boots ok, but doesn't report 2x processors, either at the
> initial boot, or with psrinfo once it's up and running.
> 
> I swapped PROM's from the other SS10 I've got here (it had a 
> 2.25) thinking 
> that I may have just had a too old PROM (2.16 or some such) No dice.  
> psrinfo still reports one CPU.
> 
> I added a 3rd module shows me two processors, one at 0, one at 2. 
> (I had 2 SM51's in the box before I got this new module)
> This result seems to be what I recall I saw before with two SM51 
> modules.  (Believe you get processors 0 and 1 on one MBUS connector, 
> 2 and 3 on the other...)
> 
> So, do I have a bad board?  Or have I missed something to configure?
> Or am I just using the wrong command to try to find the processor?
> (mpstat reports CPU 0 and 2 as well...)

What does it report at the PROM?  I'm not sure, but maybe you have to
convince Solaris that you have more than 2 processors?  Those are my
guesses...
	Greg





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