Re: netbsd-7 fails to boot on dell optiplex 990

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <rmilh0yg3fo.fsf%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost>,
Greg Troxel  <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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>I tried to boot an amd64 GENERIC on a Dell Optiplex 990, and it paniced
>with no console.   Following upgrade norms, I had only updated the
>kernel and not userland.
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>From netbsd-6, dmesg is:
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>vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x68f9 (rev. 0x00)
>wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
>radeondrm0 at vga0: ATI Radeon HD 5450
>radeondrm0: Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613
>wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
>wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
>wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
>wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
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>On netbsd-7, I only have a picture, so this is hand-typed with
>... numbers that don't immediately seem useful to try to type.
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>drm: initializing kernel modesetting (CEDAR ...)
>drm: register mmio base: ...
>drm: register mmio size: 131072
>drm kern info: ATOM BIOS: ...
>radeon0: info: VRAM: 512M ...
>radeon0: info: GTT: 1024M ...
>drm: Detected VRAM RAM=200M, BAR=256M
>drm: RAM width 64bits DDR
>Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 5774130 kiB
>Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
>drm: radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
>drm: radeon: 1024M of GTT memory ready
>drm: Loading CEDAR Microcode
>drm kern error: r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radio/CEDER_pfp.bin"
>DRM error in evergreen_init: Failed to load firmware!
>radeon0: error: Fatal error during GPU init
>radeon0: unable to attach drm: 2
>panic: cnopen: no console device
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>Note that I am not actually trying to run X.   This box sits in a data
>center and has a screen/kbd plugged into only to rescue it.
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>So I gather the firmware can't be loaded, because the nebsd-7 userland
>isn't there.  That's ok, but the failure to load leaves things messed up
>so that the text-mode kbd/display don't work.  Even though the output
>part actually does, printing panic.
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>So I wonder what should be fixed; if I had text-mode only with no chance
>to run X, I'd consider that a good outcome.
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>Fairly obviously I can take the radeon driver out of the kernel config,
>and that would result in just legacy VGA text console (which would be
>fine).
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>And less obviously I could put the microcode file in the fs, even
>without the rest of the netbsd-7 bits.  (When the kernel boots stably, I
>will upgrade userland.)
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>Any other ideas?

Comment out all drm and radeon config entries or boot -d and "no" them...

christos