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Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...
> On Jul 25, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Istvan Gyenes <igyenes%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello Jason,
>
> Nice catch :) and thanks for the good explanation!
Thanks! And you are most welcome :-)
> So I have built the current sources and...
HEY! This looks a lot like VICTORY! :-)
Some additional comments in-line below...
> DEC 2000 Model 300 AXP - ROM Version 2.2
> Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.
>
> Alpha AXP SRM Firmware Version - 370
> VMS PAL X5.48/OSF PAL X1.35 - Built on 12-FEB-1996 13:08:14.13
>
> Eisa Info Devnam Devstat
> --------- ------ -------
> CPU OK EV4 P3.0 6.6ns
> MEM OK 64MB
> NVR OK
> SCC OK
> IT OK
> KBD OK
> LPT OK
> 1 CPQ3111 VGA OK
> 2
> 3 ADP0001 SCSI OK
> 4 DEC4220 NI OK 08-00-2B-3D-48-F1
> 5
> 6 ADP0002 SCSI OK
>
> >>> sho dev
>
> BOOTDEV ADDR DEVTYPE RM/FX DEVNAM REV NUMBYTES
> ------- ---- ------- ----- ------ --- --------
> ERA0 08-00-2B-3D-48-F1
> DVA0 PC Floppy DISK RM
> SCSI Devices..
> HOST A/7/0 PROC AHA1740A G.2
> DKB0 B/0/0 DISK FX RZ28 D41C 2.10GB
> DKB100 B/1/0 DISK FX RZ28 441C 2.10GB
> DKB200 B/2/0 DISK FX RZ28M 0568 2.10GB
> DKB400 B/4/0 RODISK RM RRD46 1337 ......
> HOST B/7/0 PROC AHA1742A G.2
>
> >>> b dkb400
> INIT-S-CPU...
> AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
> AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
> AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
> AUDIT_LOAD_DONE
>
>
> NetBSD/alpha 9.99.87 ustar Bootstrap, Revision 1.3 (Sun Jul 25 17:15:20 UTC 2021)
>
> VMS PAL rev: 0x100010530
> OSF PAL rev: 0x20123
> Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
>
> Boot flags: 0,0
> 11176544+185088=0xad5da0
>
> Entering netbsd at 0xfffffc0000a01410...
> [ 1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> [ 1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag ','.
> [ 1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> [ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
> [ 1.0000000] 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
> [ 1.0000000] 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
> [ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> [ 1.0000000] The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>
> [ 1.0000000] NetBSD 9.99.87 (INSTALL) #1: Sun Jul 25 19:26:16 CEST 2021
> [ 1.0000000] igyenes@thinkpad:/mnt/netbsd/alphaobj/sys/arch/alpha/compile/INSTALL
> [ 1.0000000] DEC2000 model 300, 150MHz, s/n
> [ 1.0000000] 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> [ 1.0000000] total memory = 65536 KB
> [ 1.0000000] (2048 KB reserved for PROM, 63488 KB used by NetBSD)
> [ 1.0000000] avail memory = 51288 KB
> [ 1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
> [ 1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064-0 (EV4)
> [ 1.0000000] jensenio0 at mainbus0
> [ 1.0000000] pckbc0 at jensenio0 port 0x60
> [ 1.0000000] com0 at jensenio0 port 0x3f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
> [ 1.0000000] com0: console
> [ 1.0000000] com0: interrupting at vector 0x900
> [ 1.0000000] com1 at jensenio0 port 0x2f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
> [ 1.0000000] com1: interrupting at vector 0x920
> [ 1.0000000] lpt0 at jensenio0 port 0x3bc
> [ 1.0000000] lpt0: interrupting at eisa irq 1
> [ 1.0000000] mcclock0 at jensenio0 port 0x170: mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock
> [ 1.0000000] eisa0 at jensenio0
> [ 1.0000000] device CPQ3111 at eisa0 slot 1 not configured
FWIW, I'm investigating the Compaq Qvision display controllers... I don't think these are much more than basic SVGA devices with some rudimentary 2D graphics acceleration that's obviously not needed when it's being used in character cell mode.
> [ 1.0000000] ahb0 at eisa0 slot 3: Adaptec AHA-1740A SCSI
> [ 1.0000000] ahb0: interrupting at eisa irq 12 (edge trigger)
> [ 1.0000000] scsibus0 at ahb0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
> [ 1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
> [ 1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
> [ 1.0000000] le0 at depca2
> [ 1.0000000] le0: failed to clear memory at 0 (0xff != 0xaa)
Ok, it's obvious that we'll need to figure out what's wrong with the Ethernet.
> [ 1.0000000] ahb1 at eisa0 slot 6: Adaptec AHA-1742A SCSI
> [ 1.0000000] ahb1: interrupting at eisa irq 14 (edge trigger)
> [ 1.0000000] scsibus1 at ahb1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
> [ 1.0000000] isa0 at jensenio0
> [ 1.0000000] vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
> [ 1.0000000] wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored)
> [ 1.0000000] fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> [ 1.0000000] entropy: WARNING: extracting entropy too early
> [ 1.0053666] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> [ 1.0763652] scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> [ 3.3998922] fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> [ 4.9155283] sd0 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28 (C) DEC, D41C> disk fixed
> [ 5.0112145] sd0: 2007 MB, 3045 cyl, 16 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4110480 sectors
> [ 5.1176768] sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28 (C) DEC, 441C> disk fixed
> [ 5.2133648] sd1: 2007 MB, 3045 cyl, 16 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4110480 sectors
> [ 5.3178716] sd2 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28M (C) DEC, 0568> disk fixed
> [ 5.4194330] sd2: 2007 MB, 3045 cyl, 16 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4110480 sectors
> [ 5.7719750] cd0 at scsibus1 target 4 lun 0: <DEC, RRD46 (C) DEC, 1337> cdrom removable
> [ 6.4770424] WARNING: 2 errors while detecting hardware; check system log.
> [ 6.7016639] root on md0a dumps on md0b
> [ 6.7465883] root file system type: ffs
> [ 6.7905274] kern.module.path=/stand/alpha/9.99.87/modules
But I'm super excited about this ^^^ !
> Have to tried to istall but will do hopefully tomorrow!
Looking forward to your report!
-- thorpej
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