On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:

>> indeed detected as revision 7. However, when I have the
>> cursor-over-last-character problem you are seeing, it was detected as a
>> revision 3 board.
>
> The version probe is non-deterministic?!?

Apparently. I'll probably put irix back on the disk to see what it 
reports (and if it's always the same). Maybe I can also run some 
testprogram which does what NetBSD does to detect the boardrev?

The trouble is that I don't have an irix installation cd, only an image of 
the original disk contents. So it can take a while before I get to it...

>> At least I have a way to hack around it then. :)
>
> Right, but it's not going to help you very much, if the version probe isn't
> working properly.  You'll have to keep a local tree and use locally-compiled
> kernels ...

Not much of a problem, but if I can help improve NetBSD by helping to find 
a real fix (if this is a bug in NetBSD and not in my hw), I'd be glad to.

Kind regards,
dieter

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