Subject: Re: more sun4 console woes
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: John E. Krokes <mag@netherworld.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/11/2002 13:22:43
>
> > 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
>

1.5.3 worked fine, as does the kernel you provided.

thanks

-Mag