Subject: Re: More SPARCbook insanity
To: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/07/2005 22:30:16
Hello,

> > I also made a new test kernel, with boye-flipping on PCMCIA reversed,
> > please try it and tell me if anything PCMCIAish works with it.
> 
> > Get it here: http://macallan.homeunix.org:6704/stuff/BSD/sparc/SPARCbook3GX_04_07.bz2
> 
> Closer, the ep0 initializes, but the link light never comes on:
> 
> le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	address: 00:00:83:ae:20:37
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10base5)
> 	status: active
> 	inet 192.168.15.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ep0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	address: 00:60:97:89:d4:19
> 	media: Ethernet 10baseT (none)
Cool, so I got at least the byte-swapping right this time :)

> And the dmesg at the end, used the same CF->PCMCIA adapter, but this
> time with a 128M CF card in it.  Looks like it saw the right sized card,
> but still don't have the /dev/wd* entries.
Umm, 
cd /dev
MAKEDEV wd
?

It's quite possible that the excessive debug output slows interrupt-handling down enough to keep things from working, I'll make a less talkative kernel ASAP. 

have fun
Michael