Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:36:17 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: I LUNV JEBUS <matt@grogged.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons on U10 /w Creator Message-ID: <20040208143617.A57845@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20040207180408.D13727@grogged.dyndns.org>; from matt@grogged.dyndns.org on Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:14:54PM -0600 References: <400FB0E3.6000703@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de> <20040207180408.D13727@grogged.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:14:54PM -0600, I LUNV JEBUS wrote:
>
> I'm not having a lot of luck playing with this problem. I have an ultra 2
> creator3d that sorta works with syscons (freezes on probing serial stuff).
> Anyhow, I yanked the creator card out of the ultra 2, and compared the
> chips to the board from my U10 clone. Big difference first:
>
> Ultra 2 card has "Sun" branded chip reading:
> STP3100BGA
> 100-4025-02
> L1A9708
> (some garbage lines below)
>
> The analog on the Ultra 10 creator card ("Sun" branded as well):
> 100-5512-01
> L2A0791
> (garbage lines below)
There are a lot of different Sun Creator models and revisions (/w and
w/o "3D", form factor, chipset, ...).
>
> Another small difference:
> Ultra 2 creator board has a Bt498khf220, The Ultra 10 creator board
> analog uses a Conexant Bt498AKHF240 chip.
These are the RAMDACs. IIRC, the difference between these revisions
from the perspective of the driver is that the hardware cursor bits
are inverted.
>
> Is anyone privey to the datasheets for any of these chips? Or have any
> other bright ideas?
>
The XFree86 ffb driver is a good source of information on these
(xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/sunffb).
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