[ale] Good news for SPARC/Linux

Jason Boyles jason at primefactor.com
Tue Dec 8 15:42:44 EST 1998


In response to the recent press release from Sun which
stated they'd been 'working quietly' with prominent Linux
kernel developers on supporting their hardware, David S. Miller
(a 'prominent developer') posted this long, but interesting
message to the linux-kernel list at vger.

Enjoy.

----- Forwarded message from "David S. Miller" <davem at dm.cobaltmicro.com> -----

Date: 	Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:03:18 -0800
 From: "David S. Miller" <davem at dm.cobaltmicro.com>
To: lm at bitmover.com
CC: linux-kernel at vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199812071941.LAA10450 at bitmover.com> (lm at bitmover.com)
Subject: Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux
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   From: lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
   Date: 	Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:41:36 -0800

   Sun has gotten official about their Linux plans.

Yawn, stretch...

bash# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu		: TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)
fpu		: UltraSparc II integrated FPU
promlib		: Version 3 Revision 2
prom		: 3.2.16
type		: sun4u
ncpus probed	: 14
ncpus active	: 14
Cpu0Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu1Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu4Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu5Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu6Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu7Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu8Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu9Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu10Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu11Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu12Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu13Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu14Bogo	: 494.79
Cpu15Bogo	: 494.79
MMU Type	: Spitfire
State:
CPU0:		online
CPU1:		online
CPU4:		online
CPU5:		online
CPU6:		online
CPU7:		online
CPU8:		online
CPU9:		online
CPU10:		online
CPU11:		online
CPU12:		online
CPU13:		online
CPU14:		online
CPU15:		online
bash# dmesg
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.16 1998/06/08 16:58
Linux version 2.1.130 (root at ultrapenguin) (gcc driver version 2.7.2 snapshot 970621 executing gcc version 2.7.2) #3 SMP Mon Dec 7 21:58:03 PST 1998
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 08:00:20:9a:71:d5
Found CPU 0 (node=f006f708,mid=0)
Found CPU 1 (node=f006fac8,mid=1)
Found CPU 2 (node=f014f6e4,mid=4)
Found CPU 3 (node=f014faa4,mid=5)
Found CPU 4 (node=f01bf6e4,mid=6)
Found CPU 5 (node=f01bfaa4,mid=7)
Found CPU 6 (node=f022f6e4,mid=8)
Found CPU 7 (node=f022faa4,mid=9)
Found CPU 8 (node=f029f6e4,mid=10)
Found CPU 9 (node=f029faa4,mid=11)
Found CPU 10 (node=f030f6e4,mid=12)
Found CPU 11 (node=f030faa4,mid=13)
Found CPU 12 (node=f037f6e4,mid=14)
Found CPU 13 (node=f037faa4,mid=15)
Found 14 CPU prom device tree node(s).
CENTRAL: Detected 8 slot Enterprise system. cfreg[9e]
FHC(board 0): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (CENTRAL)
FHC(board 0): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (JTAG Master)
FHC(board 2): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 3): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 4): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 5): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 6): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 7): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
FHC(board 1): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e]
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Memory: 2059720k available (1600k kernel code, 23528k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000,fffff8007fd1c000]
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Entering UltraSMPenguin Mode...
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Calibrating delay loop... 494.80 BogoMIPS
Total of 14 processors activated (6927.16 BogoMIPS).
PCI: Probing for controllers.
PCI: No PCI bus detected
IOMMU(SBUS): IMPL[0] VERS[0] SYSIO mapped at fffff9c600000000
IOMMU: Streaming Buffer IMPL[0] REV[0] ... ENABLED
sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz
dma0: HME DVMA gate array=20
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.1
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5=20
Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.34
tty00 at 0xf0902004 (irq = 12,339) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xf0902000 (irq = 12,339) is a Zilog8530
tty02 at 0xf0904004 (irq = 12,339) is a Zilog8530
tty03 at 0xf0904000 (irq = 12,339) is a Zilog8530
keyboard: not present
Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530)
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
esp0: IRQ 7,db SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
qpti0: IRQ 7,d3 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware 1.25 96/10/15) [Ultra Wide, using single ended interface]
QPTI: Total of 1 PTI Qlogic/ISP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME
scsi1 : PTI Qlogic,ISP SBUS SCSI irq 7,d3 regs at fffff9c720010000
scsi : 2 hosts.
  Vendor: EXABYTE   Model: EXB-8505SMBANSH2  Rev: 0098
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: XM5701TASUN12XCD  Rev: 2395
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi1, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdg at scsi1, channel 0, id 10, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34501WCSUN4.2G  Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdh at scsi1, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 8 SCSI disks total.
esp0: target 6 asynchronous
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.50
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdf: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdg: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdh: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8385121 [4094 MB] [4.1 GB]
sunhme.c:v1.2 10/Oct/96 David S. Miller (davem at caipfs.rutgers.edu)
eth0: HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:9a:71:d5=20
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
 sdb: sdb1 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8
 sdc: sdc1 sdc3 sdc4 sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 sdc8
 sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd7
 sde: sde1 sde3 sde4 sde5 sde6 sde7 sde8
 sdf: sdf1 sdf3 sdf4 sdf5 sdf6 sdf7 sdf8
 sdg: sdg1 sdg3 sdg4 sdg5 sdg6 sdg7 sdg8
 sdh: sdh1 sdh2 sdh3 sdh7
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem at dm.cobaltmicro.com

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