Re: Any O2 R10K patches I should try?

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Mar 3, 2008, at 21:17, sgimips NetBSD mailing list - Scott Taylor  
wrote:

> Seeing all the activity lately has prompted me to shove things off
> the worktops and pull out and dust off the SGI equipment here.
>
> My first attempts have been with R10K O2s.  I can boot then with
> the latest -current.  But networking will cause these machines to
> reset after only 15-20 seconds.  cvs, ftp and scp have been tried.
> I've checked the mailing list archives, but don't see this addressed
> particularly in the last few months.

I have an r5k O2, mec works just fine - I'd suspect the r10k needs  
some additional cache flushes / invalidates. An off the shelf PCI  
ethernet card might do the trick too.

> Was anyone futzing with the R10K code that I can do any testing
> for?  I suspect that the Octane support isn't possible yet, as I
> see no mention of that either.

ENODOCS, ENOHARDWARE.

> I've also noticed the R10Ks don't recognize memory over 256M.  Is this
> still a limitation in the port for O2s?

That's still a limitation on all O2 variants, although there might be  
a way to access an additional 512MB without going LP64.
If you have an r5k O2 please install -current, grab a very recent  
kernel and try my X stuff - it still got problems but a few things  
are usable and speed isn't bad either, even though I didn't really  
pay attention to that yet.

have fun
Michael
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