gem0 not working on sparc64 current

[Chris Orr]

Hey,
Is there any word on using both gem0 and gem1?
Thanks!
-chris

John-Mark Gurney wrote:

>Thomas McIntyre wrote this message on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:35 -0700:
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>>Anybody know why recent CURRENT kernels have switched gem0 on my
>>sparc64 Netra from the physical port marked 0 to the one marked 1? 
>>The same thing happened when testing the install of gentoo sparc64,
>>but 5.1 had it right on RELEASE; it just recently flip flopped.
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>You can blame me for that.  On the -RELEASE, not all machines were
>probing the second gem device.  So, I fixed this, but since we do
>our own enumeration of PCI (tmm has patches to use OFW), your port 1
>is now being probed before port 0 causing the switch.
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>>It took some head scratching before figuring out to try plugging the
>>patch cable into the other port.
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>My fault for not posting a heads up to -sparc64 about that.
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>>2) It would appear that fdisk and disklabel don't work.  Going back
>>to the install program to partition the second disk is what caused
>>the installation havoc above.  Anybody know how sysinstall does it's
>>dirty work?  I'm trying to setup vinum and would rather not bounce
>>through the menu.
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>sunlabel is your friend.  on Sparc64, fdisk is not useful (only on x86
>similar systems), and disklabel has been removed in preference to bsdlabel
>and sunlabel.
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>I can't address your other issues, maybe someone else can?
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