Re: Ultra 45 (and 25) testers

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> Reviving this old thread, I have a U45 that I was trying and failing to bring up NetBSD on a while ago. I can build and netboot -current and let you know how it goes sometime over the next week.

I'd definitely be interested to know how it goes.  I've been netbooting mine
to test out various changes without any problems.  As long as you have all
the services running on the netboot server, it should work.  From other
threads, the OFW can't handle > 4GB (or 2GB) when reading the bootloader,
so for disk booting, you need a smaller root partition.  Larger might or
might not work depending on where the files end up, so is a bit risky.

-current has all the changes for the U45 (and U25) apart from the driver
for the env-monitor.  This has a lot of monitoring information for the
V215/V245, but I only found the front panel temperature on the U45 (the
other sensors we already have).  If you want to try that as well:

  https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jdc/sparc64/envmon_ebus.diff

Still a work in progress but I hope to commit it soon [*].

Thanks and regards,

Julian

[*]  I'll be away for a few weeks, so it will be after I get back.

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