Subject: Re: more sun4 console woes
To: NetBSD port-sparc mailing list <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/11/2002 15:48:35
> My 4/300 will not boot a 1.6 kernel. It hangs immediately after printing
> the information for zstty0. Perhaps this is related to the keyboard problem?
> 
> Here are the boot messages:

> zs0 at obio0 addr 0xf1000000 level 12 softpri 6
> zstty0 at zs0 channel 0
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I don't happen to have a suitable P4 frame buffer handy, so I can't test to
> see if it gets past this point when you're not using ttya as the console.

Hmm, I've recently commited a fix for a problem where the serial ports were
not being mapped to the correct prom unit's on Sun 4's.  It's possible that
that is causing the problem above.  Did it work OK with 1.5?  I've put a
kernel (1.6G) with this fix at :

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jdc/netbsd-SUN4300.gz

J

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