Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 23:31:20 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blade 100 tester wanted Message-ID: <42883028.8040001@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050514155422.A33783@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20050514155422.A33783@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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Marius, I tried the ISO bits on a Sparc notebook that is apparently very similar to a Blade100 (OFW even claims that there is a video device with an 'ATI' string in the name). Unfortunately, I was stopped by the classic 'hangs after jumping to the kernel' problem. I guess that I need to switch to using a serial console? Scott Marius Strobl wrote: > I'm looking for someone to give native support for ATI Mach64 > graphics chips (onboard in U5/U10 and Blade 100, Sun PGX cards, > etc.) a try on a Blade 100. The patch is at: > http://alchemy.franken.de/~marius/kreator_machfb.diff > and requires 6.0-current. For testing in addition to applying > the patch and compiling a kernel with machfb(4), syscons(4), > ukbd(4) and usb(4) enabled (have a look at how the patch changes > the sparc64 GENERIC config file or just use that one) ttyX have > to be enabled in /etc/ttys. To actually simplify testing I built > custom install images which are at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius//6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-bootonly.iso.bz2 > and > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius//6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso.bz2 > The checksums of these images when decompressed are: > MD5 (6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 7694411beea290553f49520a5f174195 > MD5 (6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso) = a1a08b4b9d44a636d0d60fb17263934a > > I'm interested in: > - Whether the graphical console works when 'input-device' is > set to 'keyboard' and 'output-device' to screen and an USB > keyboard is actually plugged in. > - Whether the monitor also comes up with the VTY when both > 'input-device' and 'output-device' are set to 'ttya' (i.e. > using a serial console as the primary console). When booting > the above install images the monitor should just show an > all white screen with a black cursor in the top left corner > in this configuration. > - The machfb(4) bits of the dmesg. > > It would be great if someone could give this a try in the next > couple of days as the plan actually is to enable creator(4), > machfb(4) and syscons(4) in the sparc64 GENERIC kernel for > FreeBSD 6.0 and the code and feature freeze for 6.0 starts > really soon now. > In case the graphical console works X should also work. For > Blade 100 with USB keyboards Xorg 6.8.2 actually should work > out of the box. When using machfb(4) on e.g. a U5/U10 with a > RS232 keyboard the keyboard probably won't work properly > under Xorg 6.8.2; it however should work when using the old > 'keyboard' driver instead of the new 'kbd' one (search the > freebsd-sparc64 archives for how to compile the xorg-server > 6.8.2 port with the 'keyboard' driver instead). > > Marius > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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