Re: NetBSD 5.0.2 can't handle 7455 CPU @ 1 GHz?

[Flavio Donadio <flavio%donadio.com.br@localhost>]

Donald,


I see that these machines you're trying have different video cards in different 
buses.

The one that locks loads the driver for the Rage128 frame buffer (r128fb). The 
other loads the driver for the generic frame buffer (genfb).

Try building a kernel with no ATI drivers, forcing it to load genfb. If you 
have a serial port that can be used as a console (I love my Stealth serial 
port!), I think it would suffice to just boot without the AGP graphics card 
installed. Am I right?

I think I had problems with ATI graphics cards in the past and using genfb 
solved them. In my case, the machine would run headless anyways...


Cheers,
Flavio

On 20/12/2010, at 02:07, Donald Lee wrote:

>>> Dec 19 08:30:10 charm /netbsd: cpu0: 1000.00 MHz, 256KB L2 cache no parity 
>>> parity enabled, 2MB no-parity L3 cache (PB2 SRAM) at 4:1 ratio
>> 
>> Are you sure the accelerator card's L3 can run at 250 MHz? Most of the 
>> accelerators I've seen run the L2 / L3 at around 200 MHz, and the only one 
>> I've seen which runs at 250 MHz is the L3 on the very last of the 1 GHz 
>> 9600-type upgrades from Sonnet...
>> 
>> What did NetBSD 2.x report for the L3?
>> 
>> John
> 
> Looks the same, I think.
> 
> excerpt from logs with NetBSD 2.1:
> 
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: NetBSD 2.1 (try9) #1: Tue Jan 30 23:29:09 CST 
> 2007
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd:  
> donlee@mercy:/usr/src.21/sys/arch/macppc/compile/try9
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: total memory = 1280 MB
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: avail memory = 1224 MB
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: mainbus0 (root)
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: cpu0 at mainbus0: 7455 (Revision 2.1), ID 0 
> (primary)
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: cpu0: HID0 
> 8450c0bc<EMCP,TBEN,NAP,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,LRSTK,FOLD,BHT> 
> Dec  3 22:46:21 mercy /netbsd: cpu0: 1000.00 MHz, 256KB L2 cache, 2MB 
> no-parity L3 cache (PB2 SRAM) at 4:1 ratio 
> 
> 
> I note the ID of the kernel is "try9", which means I built it.
> I dont't remember what changes I put in it, but my testing
> today with installs from CD confirm that whatever it is, it
> is also present in the "stock" kernels on the CDs.
> 
> -dgl-