Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:02:33 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Erich Jenkins <erich@fuujingroup.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunFire v1280 Message-ID: <20091123200233.GB33571@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <4B09150E.7060006@fuujingroup.com> References: <4B09150E.7060006@fuujingroup.com>
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:40:14AM -0600, Erich Jenkins wrote: > All: > > I'm running into an interesting problem with a SunFire v1280 mid-range > server. The system is running (12) UltraSPARC III procs @ 1.2GHz with > 24GB of RAM and SCSI3 spindles (no RAID). The SC and system boards are > running the most recent firmware, as you can see in the message below. > > After trying several releases (6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2), I'm running > into this message below. I've tried booting from the CD-ROM and from > tftp/dhcp/nfs with the same results. > > <snip> > Sun Fire V1280 > OpenFirmware version 5.20.13 (06/04/09 02:43) > Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > SmartFirmware, Copyright (C) 1996-2001. All rights reserved. > 24576 MB memory installed, Serial #55083219. > Ethernet address 0:3:ba:48:80:d3, Host ID: 834880d3. > > > Rebooting with command: boot cdrom > TL = 1, TT = 10. ERROR: Illegal Instruction > TSTATE= 0x1400 [ccr = 0x0, asi = 0x0, pstate = 0x14, cwp = 0x0] > TPC= 0000000000004004 > TNPC= 0000000000004008 > TICK= 8000000845e5cbd8, TICKCMP = 8000000000000000 > > debugger entered. > </snip> While this particular problem should be easy to solve, v1280 also require several workarounds for additional quirks and some new drivers to be written, requiring access to such a machine in a netboot environment. How much are you interested into getting FreeBSD to work on these and what would be the required timeframe? In any case could you please provide a Open Firmware device tree dump of this machine (`prtconf -pPv` in Solaris). Marius
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