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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:53:43 +0000
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Erich Jenkins <erich@fuujingroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SunFire v1280
Message-ID:  <20091123215343.GA86389@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091123200233.GB33571@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <4B09150E.7060006@fuujingroup.com> <20091123200233.GB33571@alchemy.franken.de>

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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).
> 

FYI, the fuujinnetworks.com mail- and web-servers seem to
block traffic from all .de ASes I have access to (traceroutes
stop at gw-ether00.fuujinnetworks.com).

Marius




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