I have two Sun Blade 100 that could use some nice shinning Gentoo installs. However, when I try to boot them with the install cd 2008 or the install-sparc64-minimal-20090511.iso, it goes all the way till a shell (most times) and then the kernel blows in a soft lockup message. Where, it varies, but it is usually related to a soft_irq. It worked a couple times without the soft lockups, but since two days ago it has always locking up. The minimal installCD 2007.0 works, using the 2.6.20 kernel. I haven't tried the other, 2.6.17 kernel, as the former worked. Both machines present this, so I am inclined to think that it is not hardware. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: One cannot use the most recent install CDs in a Sun Blade 100. Expected Results: It should boot and provide a shell without locking up. cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) fpu : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU prom : OBP 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0Bogo : 11.11 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000001debe980 MMU Type : Spitfire State: CPU0: online PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: Linux version 2.6.20-gentoo-r4 (root@bender) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)) #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 06:24:27 UTC 2007 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: <SUPPRESSED> PROM: Built device tree with 53560 bytes of memory. On node 0 totalpages: 64616 DMA zone: 671 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 63945 pages, LIFO batch:15 Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 63945 Kernel command line: init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Memory: 509768k available (2672k kernel code, 1120k data, 168k init) [fffff80000000000,000000002ff22000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 11.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5559) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU[0]: Caches D[sz(16384):line_sz(32)] I[sz(16384):line_sz(32)] E[sz(262144):line_sz(64)] Using max_cache_size of 256KB Brought up 1 CPUs Total of 1 processors activated (11.11 BogoMIPS). NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing for controllers. /pci@1f,0: SABRE PCI Bus Module PCI quirk: region 0800-083f claimed by ali7101 ACPI PCI quirk: region 0600-061f claimed by ali7101 SMB PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz isa0: [dma -> (floppy) (parallel)] [power] [serial] [serial] ebus0: [flashprom] [eeprom] [idprom] power: Control reg at 1fe02000800 ... powerd running. SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.00 loaded. /pci@1f,0/ebus@c/eeprom@1,0: Clock regs at 000001fff1000000 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 32768 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 131072 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 839k freed Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 squashfs: version 3.2 (2007/01/02) Phillip Lougher io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Console: switching to mono PROM 80x34 rtc_init: no PC rtc found atyfb: 3D RAGE XL (Mach64 GR, PCI-33) [0x4752 rev 0x27] atyfb: 8M SDRAM (1:1), 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 83 Mhz MCLK, 63 MHz XCLK Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 144x56 atyfb: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI f007264c: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1fe020003f8 (irq = 9) is a 16550A f0073d98: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1fe020002e8 (irq = 9) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0d.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 15 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a20-0x1fe02000a27, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a28-0x1fe02000a2f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: ST315310A, ATA DISK drive hdb: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1fe02000a00-0x1fe02000a07,0x1fe02000a1a on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 29888820 sectors (15303 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=29651/16/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 megasas: 00.00.03.05 Mon Oct 02 11:21:32 PDT 2006 Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.03 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.03 Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.04.03 Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.03 Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver 3.04.03 mptctl: Registered with Fusion MPT base driver mptctl: /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220) rtc_sun_init: Registered Mostek RTC driver. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: Sparc ISA Speaker as /class/input/input0 NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 SABRE0: Uncorrectable Error, primary error type[DMA Write:Translation Error] SABRE0: bytemask[00ff] dword_offset[0] was_block(0) SABRE0: UE AFAR [000000002fefc000] SABRE0: UE Secondary errors [(none)] SABRE0: IOMMU Error, type[Invalid Error] SABRE0: IOMMU TAG(6)[RAW(0000000000c6f800)error(Invalid Error)wr(0)sz(8K)vpg(df000000)] SABRE0: IOMMU DATA(6)[RAW(000000006fe17c71)valid(1)used(1)cache(0)ppg(000000002f8e2000)
Oddly enough, it has stopped working. I went through Openboot's test-all, and I am getting several "Fast Data Access MMU Miss", which probably means something is very wrong with my hardware. Will close it for now until I can get the other blade tested too.
