Port-sparc archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: cg6framebuffer freeze (Was: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2)



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello,

On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:58 PM, David Brownlee wrote:

On 8 September 2010 21:23, Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello,

On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:42 AM, David Brownlee wrote:

On 6 September 2010 16:35, Bill Roman <roman%songdog.eskimo.com@localhost> wrote:

The good news is that wscons does not appear to have a problem with the
CG6.

So this means the issue is in code which has gone away in current? So
while its annoying it will not be in netbsd-6 (as & when that comes
out). I assume the wscons changes are too big to pullup to netbsd-5 ?
:)

The wscons changes are mostly other drivers growing wsdisplay support - - cgsix(4) had it since NetBSD 3.0 or earlier ( when sparc64 switched to wscons ), you can just build a wscons kernel which will support your CG6 with the netbsd-5 sources. At least as long as the CG6 is an SBus device -
I'm not sure when the cgsix at obio code was fixed.

The question then applies to how much effort would the wscons driver
changes be to pullup to netbsd-5? :)

A lot since it's a lot of drivers and there were other changes in wscons too.

Or at least a version of GENERIC which has wscons enabled?

Look at the TADPOLE3GX kernel config, it switched to wscons in 2006.

have fun
Michael

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)

iQEVAwUBTI6qtMpnzkX8Yg2nAQLMwwf/WMDFxUGLr1wucFdN7r0I8ppHopxhpv6N
fB/ACPgSeRHabrPs5nHuxEtm9x4jK3A+P2PZnQbCq5dkROt9ab8IcER6fZWAeXQ4
rLua1TYUI3NlpC3hJ+dmSPvnVlpFjcgnJV9jQSxcX4D1046ETcEcfxe00HZFwq7y
gyhlkQaKcBAovbiSbXpAzm8Dywrp6tBUH2XRQbtRGoryG2Rsey820tUgt7sLPh5t
1vatEIRyGc+ww38sYgRtzNey2M1ysMlf6NSmpRdUNvU5rWcuCbhiCVw8g8fmi1t4
O3Zq9ZyeLSZxPgZjb1+MBZzUxiRPGTooGuHDiwjZbwOOxZGLB3tJqA==
=P7/y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index