Re: NetBSD 5.0 and SPARCstation 5 not a lucky combination

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Erik Fair wrote:

> I've seen some video/graphics strangeness on an SS20 (SM81 85 MHz  
> SuperSPARC-II CPU) with 8MB VSIMM (SX/cg14), and a SPARC LX (50 MHz  
> microSPARC-I CPU) with 1MB VSIMM (cg6); any attempt to use more(1)  
> makes the screen/keyboard lockup in a mode which suggests the video  
> mode is mismatched to the screen size, or that some piece of GPU/fb  
> config data is being scribbled on: I see three or four small copies  
> of the screen in the top half of the monitor, and the lower half is  
> a magnified copy of what was on the console, but garbled; there also  
> appear to be giant letters in the background (larger still than the  
> lower half text).

Any way to reproduce this?

> I note that wscons isn't compiled into GENERIC ... I thought that  
> was supported in 5.0?

Eh? It's supported since before 3.0 but only got enabled in 5.0. And  
it should be in GENERIC.

> I am building 5.0_STABLE optimized for supersparc/sun4m right now  
> (for old, slow systems, I find it's best to eke every cycle you can  
> out of 'em), and I intend to experiment further with a SPARC Classic  
> (cg3), and a SunJavastation (Krups, tcx) that I have.

Krups has an IGS1682, not  a tcx.

> BTW, do we have toolchain cross-compiles working well enough that I  
> could reliably build an optimized (e.g. CPUFLAGS="-mcpu=supersparc - 
> mtune=supersparc") on, say, an i386? I have this vague memory of an  
> issue which made that not work ...

This has been working for ages. COPTS="-mwhatever" is your friend.

have fun
Michael

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