Message-ID: <BF9651D8732ED311A61D00105A9CA31503514EE5@berkeley.gci.com> From: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:29:52 -0900 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] no more than 1 qfe card: was (kernel compile fa ils on ultrasparc64)
> From: Joshua Uziel [mailto:uzi@suse.com]
>
> * Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> [001102 09:57]:
> > Great lenghts of detail if you read further down on my
> previous email
> > in this thread. However, to sum up:
> > 1 hme (built-in) - works
> > 1 hme + 1 qfe - works
> > 1 hme + 2 qfe - kernel oops.
>
> Oh, I read it... I guess I just misread it. :) Excellent
> detail, btw...
>
> > i'm in the middle of getting 2.4.0-test10 compiled and booting
> > on the machine to know if it's just a problem with the shipped
> > kernel or no.
>
> I'd love to know your results. From what you have so far, this bug
> isn't SuSE's fault... or anyones, really. I just don't know how often
> people pop 2 qfe's in the same SPARC/Linux machine... (this was
> commonplace when I worked on HA Clustering at SUN (on Solaris)).
hahah. Okay, so there wasn't that much detail on the numbers of interfaces,
but at the ksymoops stuff was pretty thourough, i thought. :-)
ANYwho..
Compiled 2.4.0-test10, and it's now up and running. Quite nice and stable,
if i might add.
Everything works fine, with the onboard hme. Add in a single quattro-hme
card,
and I can see the new four interfaces. Still good...
Add in the second quatro-hme card.... (note that i'm now using the correct
terminology of quatro-hme... :-)
And i still only see eth0 - eth4
Looks like the driver reads the prom for devices, but isn't seeing
the multiple entries for the SUNW,qfe (which translates to the quattro-hme)
so, from the prom:
ok show-sbus
SBus slot e SUNW,bpp SUNW,hme SUNW,fas SUNW,bpp SUNW,hme SUNW,fas
SBus slot 0
SBus slot 1 SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe
SUNW,qfe
SBus slot 2 cgsix cgsix
SBus slot 3 SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe SUNW,qfe
SUNW,qfe
Not sure why it's repeating each device twice, but as you can see, i do
have multiple qfe cards.
Time to write the code maintainer, i guess.
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