Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:05:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blade 100 w/ 5.4-PRERELEASE console Message-ID: <20050314030514.GB18526@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050313223350.J55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20050312062214.GH10159@hex.databits.net> <20050312181935.A90975@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20050313211440.GB1470@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050313223350.J55534@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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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)
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