Re: NetBSD 7.2, 8.2 and 9.0 on SparcStation IPC

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

> However, looking at the date range, the bug looks very similar to mine:
> I identified breakage around
> 
> File:boot.388000-2006-01-26 -> boots
> File:boot.388000-2006-11-17 -> fails!
> 
> No clue how 6 years ago I did the test. The Bug report is about
> "floppy", I don't use a floppy - no drive present even, it was removed
> by the previous owner of the IPC.

Unfortunately my SS1+ was dead in 2012 so I no longer can test it
on sun4c machines. (though I still have SS20 but it should work?)

There was a boot log that my SS1+ was booting with
"Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15":

---
halted

Program terminated
ok boot -s
Booting from: sd(0,0,0) -s 
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15
>> (tsutsui@mirage, Mon Mar 23 21:23:20 JST 2009)
Booting netbsd
3644548+109056+266384 [245360+231385]=0x45a0f8
^?I%^]!QB^Z^B
JJ2b^B
JJ:b^B
JJBb^B
JJJb^B^R^B^B^Bb^B^R^B^B
b^B^R^B^B^Rb^B^R^B^B^Zb^B^R^B^B"b^B^R^B^B*b$ 2007, 2008, 2009
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 5.99.16 (GENERIC) #45: Tue Sep 15 21:28:39 JST 2009
        tsutsui@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 65488 KB
avail memory = 59552 KB
bootpath: /sbus0/esp0/sd@0,0
mainbus0 (root): Sun 4/65: hostid 53009494
cpu0 at mainbus0: MB86900/1A or L64801 @ 25 MHz, WTL3170/2 FPU
cpu0: 64K byte write-through, 16 bytes/line, sw flush: cache enabled
memreg0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf4000000
 :
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(Several corruption might be caused by serial overrun?)

Unfortunately the version number was not bumped properly after 2005,
 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/boot/version
but I think "Mon Mar 23 21:23:20 JST 2009" and "5.99.16" implicitly
shows it was newer than your "boot.388000-2006-11-17" one.

Maybe possible problem is some PROM firmware bug caused by
multiple open device etc. as floppy case filed in  PR/42186?
https://gnats.netbsd.org/42186

It would be worth to check if reverting promdev.c rev 1.19
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/common/promdev.c#rev1.19
helps or not.

> I wonder if Izumi still reads us and if he upgraded his OpenBSD on his
> SPARCstations.... I put him in CC at the old address.

Note we are NetBSD :-)

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Izumi Tsutsui