Subject: Re: E250 support?
To: Mark Blackman <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk>
From: Aaron Hodgen <ahodgen@postsmart.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/02/2001 16:23:34
Try commenting out the following lines in the config.... works for me:

com*   at ebus?                                # `com' driver for `su'
kbd0   at com?                                 # keyboard
ms0    at com?                                 # mouse 

Aaron Hodgen

On Friday 02 February 2001 07:48, Mark Blackman wrote:
> > 	I had a go with the sparc64 port on an E250 back in August (1.5A?)
> > 	with  kernel boot failures in the network interface driver code.
> >
> > 	Now I've got problems (1.5Q) with the psycho code on a
> > 	new E250. Does that make sense? Should E250's work effortlessly
> > 	now or are there still holes in the device support?
> >
> > I would not expect it to work on E250s.  Most of the
> > work to-date has been done on machines with UltraSPARCIIi
> > processors rather then psycho+ PCI controllers.  There
> > are significant differences between UIIi and psycho+,
> > for instance psycho+ has a streaming cache but UIIi
> > does not.
> >
> > It would be interesting to see how it fails so maybe
> > we could fix it.
> >
> > Eduardo
>
> Below is output of boot, followed by trace, then prtconf -pv at the
> very bottom.
>
> Resetting ...
>
>
> Sun (TM) Enterprise 250 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), Keyboard Present
> OpenBoot 3.16, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #15128240.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:e6:d6:b0, Host ID: 80e6d6b0.
>
>
>
> Rebooting with command: boot net
> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1  File and args:
> 43800 >> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision
>
> >> (eeh@nonplus.netbsd.org, Sat Jan 13 09:12:31 PST 2001)
>
> Using BOOTPARAMS protocol: ip address: 192.168.1.235, hostname:
> sunbox.ch.foobar .net
> root addr=192.168.1.150 path=/tmp/export/sunbox/root
> loadfile: reading header
> elf64_exec: Booting /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1/netbsd
> 3233760@0x1000000+218560@0x1400000+538336@0x14355c0
> symbols @ 0xfefa4340 84+247680+127537 start=0x1000000
> chain: calling OF_chain(800000, ee48, 1000000, fff89a80, 18)
> [ using 376144 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
> prom_get_msgbuf: Cannot recover msgbuf on E250
> prom_get_msgbuf: allocated new buf at 00000000
> prom_get_msgbuf: claiming new buf at 00000000
> pmap_bootstrap: could not claim physical dseg extention at 3fcba000 size
> 346000 Setting DTLB entry 00000000 01000000 data e0000000 3f800076
> Setting DTLB entry 00000000 01400000 data e0000000 3f400076
> Setting ITLB entry 00000000 01000000 data e0000000 3f400076
> Setting TSB pointer 00000000 014ca000
> consinit()
> setting up stdin
> stdin instance = fff69760
> setting up stdout
> stdout instance = fff69d00
> stdout package = f006eca8
> console is unknown
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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>
> NetBSD 1.5Q (GENERIC) #12: Sun Jan 14 10:54:27 PST 2001
>     eeh@nonplus.netbsd.org:/home4/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
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