Subject: Re: More SPARCbook insanity
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/07/2005 21:33:59
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:30:16PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> 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
> ?

No wd entries in the MAKEDEV from the 2.0 distribution.

Did you compile support for it into that kernel?

Can I can just grab the major/minor's from my i386 box and make them by
hand?

> 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.

Okie dokie.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org