Re: Graphics hardware support on sparc64

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Michael Lorenz wrote:

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> Hello,
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> On Nov 22, 2007, at 15:30, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
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> > It would be good if you could (maybe periodically) a small
> > table of existing cards and their support status.  I might have
> > some time for testing over Christmas, and I have a pile of cards.
> > Most of them are SBus and horizontal and vertical UPA but some PCI.
>
> Since I just ran into this and have a few minutes to spare here we go:
>
> 1. UPA cards
> All UPA cards should work as console ( with the ffb driver ) and in X ( with 
> the sunffb driver ). Elite3D cards need an extra step - you need to upload a 
> firmware image into the card using the afbinit utility from pkgsrc and a 
> firmware file from Solaris ( we're not allowed to ship it, mails to Sun 
> asking about it haven't been answered for years )

        Random aside on this, would it make sense for this to use
        firmload(9) similar to drivers like wpi?

> Also, I don't know which 64bit Sun machines would have two SBus slots right 
> next to each other ( like the SS20 does ) - on the U1 they're too far apart 
> so the AG-10e doesn't fit. I suspect it might fit in the U2. So, if anyone 
> wants this to work I need an U2 :)

        (Looks at the Ultra2 sitting idle on the shelf)... where are
        you based again? :)

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