Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:57:42 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ultra 1 support Message-ID: <20051221215742.A1053@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0512211113130.22324-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>; from ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de on Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:38:58AM %2B0100 References: <2e3d0b9e0512202039m37513670m14088a6ff3497d37@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0512211113130.22324-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have been looking to install free-bsd on my Ultra 1 Creator, but on > > the unsupported machines is listed the Ultra 1, however the 'Ultra 1E' > > is listed as supported. What is the 'E' version? I have never heard of > > such, it is the Creator? > > Ultra 1E is definitely supported (to some extent also a plain Ultra1). It > has an 100BaseTX hme(4) Ethernet interface (while the plain Ultra 1 has > an 10BaseT interface which is not yet supported). Ultra 1E has also a > Creator frame buffer which is supported by FreeBSD. IIRC E in 1E comes > from Enterprise version! > > There is an easy way to recognize an 1E from plain Ultra 1 by looking at > the Ultra 1 logo plate on the case. On 1E the number 1 is written in a red > circle while on plain ultra 1 is written in some sort of teal circle. > > To summarize: > > -on 1E we support the onboard disk controller + onboard ethernet > > -on plain Ultra 1 we support ONLY the onboard esp(4) diskcontroller > and one has to use a specially build loader (without gzip > support -- for more on this please read this list's archives). > (at least this apply for 6.0-RELEASE) A fix/workaround for the underlying problem was commited some time ago and MFC'ed to RELENG_6 on November 30th so the December 6.0 and 7.0 snapshots should boot just fine from stuff attached to the on-board ESP in U1. I also did a driver for the on-board Ethernet NIC, with some luck it'll be in 6.1. > > To make also a plane Ultra1 useful one has to give it 1E "flavors" by > installing an SBUS hme interface (this is what I have done to mine) and > eventually an SBUS Creator Card. AFAICT there's no such thing like a SBus Creator card, all have UPA connectors (which come in two different shapes) and U1 don't have UPA slots. Actually I think the only graphics cards supported in U1 are the TGX and TGX+ variants of the CG6 familiy, at least the GX and GX+ ones are electrically incompatible with SBus in U1 and you also can't plug the latter into a U1 unless using a saw (that's probably also true for the other SBus graphics cards built for the sun4u predecessor). I hope to have a driver for the CG6 ready for 6.2. Marius -- This mail was scanned by AntiVir Milter. This product is licensed for non-commercial use. See www.antivir.de for details.
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