Subject: Re: panic: wscons_emul_attach: bogus location on 3000/900?
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/15/1996 19:04:34
> > I put a new kernel up at
> >
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/cgd/netbsd.GENERIC.gz
> >
> > which should solve your problem. Give it a spin, and tell me how it
> > goes.
>
> Works fine.
Cool!
> Next problem:
>
> Characters entered on the console seem to quasi-randomly
> repeated. I've attached the kernel probe output and results of my
> attempt to enter a terminal type, followed by my entering a-zA-Z
> (there was one typo in one of them, but note that most characters are
> doubled). To get it to accept "xterm" I had to enter each letter
> multiple times and delete until finally it accepted the letter in question
> as a single one.
>
> Clues, how to debug, etc., would be appreciated.
That's a good one. I've seen that before, but never need it happen
quite so regularly and severly...
The z8530 has a hardware settle time, and I'd always thought that that
was taken care of in hardware on the alpha since i figured that if
that _was_ a problem, it would have blown up more severely...
I've built a kernel which includes short delays when accessing the SCC
registers. it's now at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/cgd/netbsd.GENERIC.gz
(same place as the old one)
I've booted it on my 3000/300LX, and it seems to work fine there.
(just a sanity check; it used to work fine... 8-)
chris