Subject: Re: SPARCclassic-X _almost_ works.
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/06/1999 17:38:53
Aha - thanks. I'll give that a shot and if it works add the
SPARCclassic-X to the supported hardware under
Ports/sparc/index.html with an appropriate note.
Thanks again!
David/absolute
-=- "Why am I seething with this animosity" -=-
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > Tried to boot 1.4 on a SPARCclassic-X. Its booting from a local
> > disk (once you set the boot-from to /iommu/dma/espdma/esp/... etc)
> >...
> > dma0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0x8800000: rev 0
> > esp0 at dma0 slot 4 offset 0x8400000data fault: pc=0xf0160d5c addr=0x0 sfsr=126<PERR=0,LVL=1,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
> >...
> > Anyone have any thoughts on how I might debug this?
>
> I would suspect it may be because firmware isn't doing some
> initialisation that normally needs to be done on the SCSI controller.
> Why just turn your Classic X into a real Classic by tweaking the
> NVRAM bits mentioned in the NVRAM FAQ? (I've done this, and NetBSD
> runs fine on my ex-Classic-X.)
>
> cjs
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