Subject: nell & audioamd
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Dan Poler <dpoler@ops.ce.mediaone.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/14/1999 12:57:48
Hi --

I just installed 1.4 on a Sun SPARCstation Voyager, 80Mb RAM, 340Mb disk,
yadda yadda. Some observations, maybe helpful, maybe not.

* Having a PCMCIA card installed will cause the system to panic. I didn't
get a traceback or actual message due to quickly-scrolling display and not
enough space to get a full dump. The section of dmesg related to the
configuration of nell is attached here:

nell0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 4 (ipl 7) level 7 (ipl 13)socket[0]
registers:
        ICR0=0
        ICR1=0
ISR0=37074<IOIS16,IOREQ,STSCHG,SPKR,WPCHG,RDYCHG,BVD1CHG,BVD2CHG,CDC
        ISR1=1<REV=1,PCTYPE=0>
socket[1] registers:
        ICR0=0
        ICR1=0
ISR0=37074<IOIS16,IOREQ,STSCHG,SPKR,WPCHG,RDYCHG,BVD1CHG,BVD2CHG,CDC
        ISR1=1<REV=1,PCTYPE=0>
: rev 1
pcmcia0 at nell0 socket 0
stp4020[0]: Battery change 1
stp4020[0]: Battery change 2
stp4020[0]: Ready/Busy change
stp4020[0]: Write protect change
stp4020[1]: Battery change 1
stp4020[1]: Battery change 2
stp4020[1]: Ready/Busy change
stp4020[1]: Write protect change
pcmcia1 at nell0 socket 1


* The GENERIC kernel config file notes that having nell and audioamd both
enabled will cause a panic on attach. Is this still the case?

* Where is audioamd supposed to attach on a sun4m, anyway? I thought it
attached to obio but it doesn't seem to like that, and if I attach it to
sbus it doesn't seem to get itself found. Weirdness.

* The sun-ss5 termcap entry discussed a week or two ago fixes display
problems on the Voyager as well. All in all, except for the aforementioned
difficulties, NetBSD is a wonderful choice for this machine. I look
forward to further support like ISDN, etc, and if I can lend a hand in
providing the necessary info for such, please let me know!

Thanks!

Dan