Re: Status of port-newsmips?

[Mauricio <raub%kudria.com@localhost>]

At 20:47 +0900 9/14/02, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <a05100302b9a8661fecec@[10.0.0.10]>
> raub%kudria.com@localhost wrote:
>
> >  >Maybe it has twelve 1MB SIMMs, and you can put 4MB SIMMs instead
> >  >up to 64Mbytes. My NWS-3470D has 64M RAM.
> >
> >         Cool.  Time for some SIMM hunting then =)
>
> NWS-3xxx machines require SIMMs with parity.
> But I'm not sure if three chip SIMM works or not.
> (SIMMS with 9-chips should work, though)

        I think I should have plenty of those laying around =)

>  > NEWS> bo fh
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
> >  (autobuild%tgm.daemon.org@localhost, Sat Sep  7 19:57:02 UTC 2002)
> >  Booting fh(0,0,0)
> >  3788624+127656=0x3bc394
> >
> >  and it just hang up on there.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Hmm, if you got this even on serial consle, there are some problems
> during initialization (for console or something).
> Would you please try this image?
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs
> The kernel in this image will call fb initialization only on NWS-3470D.
> If this does not work, more work is needed..

	Ok.  I just downloaded the file and am dumping it to the disk 
in my Sparc 20 (solaris 2.6).  Just to make sure I am not screwing 
up, here is the commands I used:

# dd if=boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rdiskette
68+1 records in
68+1 records out
# eject floppy
#

Now, I am going to boot up the 3710 beast, jumpers set so only jumper 
#6 is up (I assume that the machine can boot up in this mode if I 
force it to do so):

*** Diagnostic mode ***

PHASE 1: D-RAM CELL TEST

TESTING MAIN MEMORY ......... FROM 0xa0000000 THROUGH 0xa0bf7fff
        LONG WORD ACCESS ............ OK
        HALF WORD ACCESS ............ OK
        BYTE ACCESS ................. OK

PHASE 2: FDC AND FDD CHECK

SEND SPECIFY COMMAND ........ DONE
SET CTRL INTERNAL ........... DONE
SELECT ECMA FORMAT .......... DONE
TURN MOTOR ON ............... DONE
SENSE DEVICE ................ DONE
        DRIVE STATUS ................ NOT READY
SENSE DEVICE ................ DONE
        DRIVE STATUS ................ NOT READY
SENSE DEVICE ................ DONE
        DRIVE STATUS ................ NOT READY
SENSE DEVICE ................ DONE
        DRIVE STATUS ................ NOT READY
SENSE DEVICE ................ DONE
        DRIVE STATUS ................ NOT READY

NEWS>

So, now I try to boot:

NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(tsutsui@mirage, Sat Sep 14 18:20:02 JST 2002)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3788720+128968=0x3bc914

Once again,t hat is as far as the machine went. =(