[SunRescue] SM100's and 630mp

Jody Stephens rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Apr 7 13:56:43 CDT 2001


A followup to my own post
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:53:35PM -0700, Jody Stephens wrote:
> Now that I got my 630mp booting (1 sm100 module), I decided that I 
> need another sm100 so I can have 4 processors (I've been drooling
> after quad's for years now). Does anyone have a sm100 module they 
> would be willing to let go of cheap?  
>  
> On the subject of the 630mp.
> 1. What, if any, cards are availble for the 630's 3u and 6u vme
> slots?
> 
> 2. What should I run on it? OpenBSD boots, but only to one 
> processor (obviously). I'm going to try a linux install later,
> but I think what I really want is Solaris. It seems that 2.5.1
> is the last revision that worked,but I don't have any media for
> any solaris let alone 2.5.1. Any help would be appreciated.

Turns out linux does do SMP on the SM100's
Using Slackware-current, installed the sun4dm kernel.
Linux 2.2.19.
root at vodka:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
cpu             : Cypress/ROSS CY7C601
fpu             : Cypress CY7C602 FPU
promlib         : Version 3 Revision 2
prom            : 2.5
type            : sun4m
ncpus probed    : 2
ncpus active    : 2
Cpu0Bogo        : 39.83
Cpu1Bogo        : 39.93
MMU type        : ROSS Cypress-605(MP)
invall          : 83
invmm           : 1145
invrnge         : 1958
invpg           : 15596
contexts        : 4096
CPU0            : online
CPU1            : online

Compared to my IPC, this thing just screams. Fun fun fun 
in the sun sun sun. 
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