I see these errors frequently on a quad-processor Sparc10, but can't find anything in the bug tracking pages. Is this a real problem or just noise?
The Unimplemented SPARC system call errors don't make me feel warm and fuzzy either. Note: the CPUs are actually ROSS Hyperscarc CPUs. Bob -- ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Bob Van Cleef, Systems Administrator (408) 734-8100 MicroUnity, Inc. FAX (408) 734-8136 376 Martin Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] triton:~# dmesg PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Linux version 2.2.18pre21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Tue Mar 27 21:01:02 PST 2001 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20 Ethernet address: 8:0:20:1e:2a:33 SRMMU: Using VAC size of 262144 bytes, line size 64 bytes. Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[ROSS HyperSparc]/iommu [0]: v[f0000000,fd000000](d000000) p[00000000] [1]: v[dd000000,eff79000](12f79000) p[0d000000] [2]: v[eff7a000,eff8d000](13000) p[1ff7a000] Found CPU 0 <node=ffd6e140,mid=8> Found CPU 1 <node=ffd6e380,mid=9> Found CPU 2 <node=ffd6e5c0,mid=10> Found CPU 3 <node=ffd6e800,mid=11> Found 4 CPU prom device tree node(s). Power off control detected. Calibrating delay loop... 89.90 BogoMIPS Memory: 516208k available (1236k kernel code, 6252k data, 128k init) [dd000000,f d000000] Dentry hash table entries: 65536 (order 7, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Entering SMP Mode... Starting CPU 1 at f017ce24 Calibrating delay loop... 89.90 BogoMIPS Starting CPU 2 at f017ce30 Calibrating delay loop... 89.90 BogoMIPS Starting CPU 3 at f017ce3c Calibrating delay loop... 89.90 BogoMIPS Total of 4 Processors activated (359.62 BogoMIPS). IOMMU: impl 0 vers 3 page table at fcf00000 of size 1048576 bytes sbus0: Clock 20.0 MHz dma0: Revision 2 dma1: Revision 2 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 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 TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.6 tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318416N Rev: 0010 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35885168 [17522 MB] [17.5 GB] sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:1e:2a:33 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155 rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 44 rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155 rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 154 mount[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 44 Adding Swap: 511684k swap-space (priority -1) mount[16]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 44 esp0: Gross error sreg=51 esp0: Gross error sreg=53 esp0: Gross error sreg=53 esp0: Gross error sreg=53 esp0: Gross error sreg=53 esp0: Gross error sreg=53 esp0: Gross error sreg=53