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Hello,

> Do you suggest doing a headless insatallation
> then adding video card(s) and Xfree86 install
> or doing it all at once ?

I didn't suggest anything.
As NetBSD is right now no non-OF video cards will work. This is a 
limitation imposed by the way XFree tries to access PCI video cards on 
sparc64 - it simply tries to mmap() their resources through /dev/ttyE0 
which only allows access to the console device. I merely mentioned that 
there are ways around this limitation which would get more or less any 
PCI video card - OF or not - to work, this requires changes both in the 
kernel and in XFree86 though.
The idea is to attach a dev/fb* to any PCI video device, even those we 
can't use otherwise, and use them to mmap() the chips' BARs. This way 
we don't need to frob with /dev/pci* - just go through /dev/fb* to 
discover devices and no need to muck with bridges etc. We have a file 
handle for each device and the Xserver doesn't need to run as root - 
provided the fb devices have the right permissions. Machfb already 
exports a /dev/fb and I wrote a simple driver that attaches to anything 
PCI video as low priority catch-all which does nothing but provide a 
/dev/fb for otherwise unsupported chips.
With these patches in place I've been able to use all video controllers 
in my U10 at once, including a Millennium II with PC firmware and a 
Millennium I with Apple firmware ( which does nothing but give the OF 
node a funny name - it doesn't work as OF console in a Mac either )

have fun
Michael
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