IIRC since 1.3 a lot of the sparc code was moved across to
	bus_space, bus_dma, and other updated interfaces. Its possible
	something broke along the way. The fact the ie interface also
	has issues suggests itts in the vme code rather than the scsi
	drivers, particularly as the sc and si drivers are in use on the
	sun3 and (I think) sun2 ports.

-- 
		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > 	Have you tried a -current kernel just as a datapoint?
>
> No, I need to download a snap and try that.  I will do that tonight.
> Last night I retried all the bits I had available, and everything
> beyond 1.3.3 croaks, either by freezing or by panicing.  The 1.5 and
> later just freezes.  The 1.4-1.4X just panics or dies with a scsi dma
> error.  The 1.2.1 and 1.3.3 do fine.  They seem to have the polling
> scsi drivers.  Is there anything strange in the later scsi drivers
> as regards a sun 4100 cpu, or might I have a wierd cpu?
>
> Bob
>
> > > I was trying to get a NetBSD of any sort up on my sun4100 VME machine
> > > (Call it mostly a Sun 4/110), but was not having any luck except for
> > > 1.2.1 and 1.3.3.  None of the 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 booted
> > > on it.  Is anyone besides me still running a VME sun4100 cpu based
> > > machine with NetBSD?  If so, what are you actually running on it, and
> > > what, if anything, out of the ordinary did you have to do to get it up
> > > and running.  SunOS 4.1.3U1 and OpenBSD 2.9 run fine on it.  Either
> > > something strage is going on with my particular cpu, or I am missing
> > > something about installing via miniroots in NetBSD.  So, out of curiosity,
> > > who is actually running sun4 vme machines, these days with NetBSD?
>
>