Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:17:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Brett Bump <bbump@mail.enetis.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3300/3305 and 5300/5305 Problems Message-ID: <14618.1978.586094.137060@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <391A031A.4CB8509A@mail.enetis.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005061257280.19862-100000@server.engec.com.br> <39148C07.E97DCEAF@mail.enetis.net> <14614.49806.293997.4055@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3918CBC5.C9495F35@mail.enetis.net> <14617.22897.113127.677981@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <391A031A.4CB8509A@mail.enetis.net>
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Brett Bump writes:
>
> Um...does this look like what I think it looks like?
To me it looks like something that makes sense! I remember hearing
that the whitebox numbers were negative.. Try this:
Index: sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -r1.68 machdep.c
--- sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c 2000/02/29 08:48:08 1.68
+++ sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c 2000/05/11 01:16:06
@@ -740,6 +740,14 @@
* Find out what hardware we're on, and do basic initialization.
*/
cputype = hwrpb->rpb_type;
+ if (cputype < 0) {
+ /*
+ * At least some white-box systems have SRM which
+ * reports a systype that's the negative of their
+ * blue-box counterpart.
+ */
+ cputype = -cputype;
+ }
if (cputype >= ncpuinit) {
platform_not_supported(cputype);
/* NOTREACHED */
Cheers,
Drew
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