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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:44:44 +0100
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting of snapshot-iso on SUN Fire V280R
Message-ID:  <20081112194444.GD64456@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081111170407.GS5156@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
References:  <20081028172823.GO5156@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <20081028221321.GA32214@alchemy.franken.de> <20081029001112.GR5156@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <20081029081558.GB31338@alchemy.franken.de> <20081029140204.GS5156@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <20081110222744.GA64456@alchemy.franken.de> <20081111170407.GS5156@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:04:07PM +0100, Michael Moll wrote:
> Hi Marius,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:27:44PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > Could you please give the patch at:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/schizo_cdma.diff
> > a try with that machine? The patch implements the consistent
> > DMA syncing required for devices behind PCI-PCI, f.e. your
> > HMEs, for Schizo version >= 5. I.e. please test, whether
> > the machine still boots with the patch in place and using
> > a HME just works and increases the vec566: pcib0 counter
> > (I hope I got the numbers right; well, see `vmstat -i`
> > for pcib interrupts).
> 
> Seems all fine, I attached verbose bootmessages. I tried one HME
> interface and it seems to work, counters increase also:

Thanks you very much for testing! How annoying is testing
patches on this machine for you? At some point in time
I'll have another one to try with a version >= 5 Schizo,
which won't require additional hardware like your QFE
card though, so I could also bug someone else then...

Marius




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