Subject: Ultra 5+ serial console support in NetBSD/SPARC64 1.5 release
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/08/2000 16:15:26
I am getting an Ultra 5+ at work to replace my SPARCstation 20/71, now that
1.5 is out. I'm a little confused about how Ultra 5+ console support works.
The INSTALL document says
Supported devices
[...]
o Serial devices
- SBus Z8530 serial (zs)
[...]
Unsupported devices
[...]
o Serial devices
- PCI based systems (sab)
If there's no keyboard & mouse support, no video support, and no "serial
devices" support for the (PCI) Ultra 5/10, how the heck do you install it?
Mike Cooper's excellent "sysinfo" returns the following on my officemate's
Ultra 5+ system:
[...]
pci108e,a000(0) is a "Sun sabre" PCI
simba0 is a "Sun PCI" PCI bus bridge
ebus0 is a "Sun Microsystems PCI<->OnBoard" bus bridge
auxio is a "Auxiliary I/O"
power0
se0 is a "Siemens 82532 ESCC" serial device
su0 is a "82510/8250/16450/16550AF" serial device
kbd is a "Sun Type-5 US Unix" Keyboard
su1 is a "82510/8250/16450/16550AF" serial device
[...]
Is the serial port console on the "se0" device? Which is supported in 1.5?
(What the heck is a "sab", anyway?)
I'm going to assume that I'll be installing 1.5 on an external 9 Gb SCSI disk
from Solaris (on the internal disk), but am wondering what's going to happen
after that, when I want to boot up into NetBSD. (I'm on a SPARCserver 20 here
at home, running headless with a serial "zs" console that obviously works
fine, and am wondering if I can do the same with the Ultra 5+.)
Thanks in advance,
- Greg