From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 03:05:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2476216A4CE; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CC143D67; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:05:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2E35EPT018623; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j2E35EWk018621; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:05:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Marius Strobl Message-ID: <20050314030514.GB18526@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050312062214.GH10159@hex.databits.net> <20050312181935.A90975@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20050313211440.GB1470@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050313223350.J55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050313223350.J55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: re@freebsd.org cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blade 100 w/ 5.4-PRERELEASE console X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:05:23 -0000 On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:33:50PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:14:40PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:19:35PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:22:14AM -0600, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > mess with the OBP variables. I believe this is needless pain for > > > > users trying to install FreeBSD on their Blade 100s (and possibly > > > > other models). > > > > > > No, this is a nit which easily can be worked around. A real pain is > > > that binutils are broken on sparc64 and users have to manually apply > > > a patch to the base src and recompile binutils in order to be able > > > to build a number of ports. > > > > Applying a patch that is running work around is a nit which can be easily > > worked around. NOT being able to boot to apply a patch isn't. > > > > I don't get what you try to say with the first sentence but the > work-around to be able to boot was to set both input-device and > output-device to ttya. I suggested you to do just this three > times. You suggested it on Friday. Why do you think I just stumbled upon it on Friday? It took up considerable amount of my FreeBSD before I figured out the bad commit. Its lovely that a commit that breaks things is so fought for to remain in the tree. AND if you've been using sparc hardware for the past 15 years, this is totally non-intuiative. So now I'm taking your position -- I'm telling you a work around for what you feel is a big problem -- apply Kris' patch. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)