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Date:      Sat, 14 May 2005 15:54:22 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Blade 100 tester wanted
Message-ID:  <20050514155422.A33783@newtrinity.zeist.de>

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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



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