Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:53 +0100 From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testers with U10/Creator wanted Message-ID: <1108681433.729.4.camel@heater.rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050216142205.N18907@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20050215020433.B72346@newtrinity.zeist.de> <1108478092.30515.9.camel@heater.rainbow-runner.nl> <20050216142205.N18907@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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Op wo, 16-02-2005 te 14:22 +0100, schreef Marius Strobl: >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Koop Mast wrote: >> Op di, 15-02-2005 te 02:04 +0100, schreef Marius Strobl: >> >People who tried syscons(4) on Ultra 10 in the past reported a hang >> >during boot after the screen is blanked. I managed to reproduce and >> >fix this on a Sun AXi board. Could someone with a Creator(3D) or >> >Elite3D equipped Ultra 10 please give the patch at: >> >http://alchemy.franken.de/~marius/delay_fix.diff >> >a try to see if it also solves the problem there? It shouldn't matter >> >if you are running -stable or -current. >> >> My hero! >> >> Works fine on my Ultra10 here. >> >> # Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz), No Keyboard >> # OpenBoot 3.31, 1024 MB (60 ns) memory installed, Serial #xxxxxxxx. >> >> Only my monitor doesn't want to display anything. Probably a local >> problem. Maybe something non related to the patch. > >The patch fixes DELAY() which would never return in certain situations >when used early in boot. The excessive use of DELAY() in uart(4) when >probing Sun keyboards seems to always manage to trigger this. >If you don't get display output then this should be another issue. >Does the monitor work before FreeBSD is booted, i.e. do you see the >Open Firmware banner etc.? Works now, I needed to reseat the card a few times. >So far I got one other reply in private mail stating that syscons(4) >would work on U10 with the patch. Did the patch change anything for >you, i.e. did you try syscons(4) on your U10 in the past and also >got the mentioned hang? My U10 would always hang before the patch. >> >> I'm going to test this also on a Ultra1 with a creator card (non-3D). >> But that can take a little while. >> > >As far as I can tell only UltraSparc II[e,i] based systems are affected >by this issue so the patch shouldn't make any difference on an U1. >Have you tried syscons(4) on that U1 before? There's probably a nit >with creator(4) and old Creator cards that should be fixed but so far >I didn't find a Creator card that is "old enough" to be affected. Could >you please send me the output of `ofwdump -a -p` of that machine? I have tried syscons before on my U1. It reacted precisly like my U10 did. Jumping to kernel after that blank screen. http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/ofwdump-ultra1.txt >Marius >
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