Re: Graphics hardware support on sparc64

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

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Hello,

On Apr 22, 2008, at 05:40, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
> > On Nov 22, 2007, at 15:30, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> >
> > > 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?

Maybe - I'll have to look at firmload. There's not much pressure  
though, the console doesn't need the firmware image to work properly  
and afbinit is not exactly complicated either.

> > 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? :)

North-eastern Tennessee, if the mountains weren't in the way I could  
see North Carolina and Virginia from here ;)

have fun
Michael
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