FreeBSD usable as a workstation on a blade 100

neal elliott nealelliott at netscape.net
Mon May 5 13:12:18 PDT 2003


where is the todo list for FreeBSD on a blade 100?

will at csociety.org wrote:

>On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, neal elliott wrote:
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>>   Now I Have FreeBSD installed on my blade 100 system I noticed how much 
>>   faster it
>>is then solaris. Is there anyone who uses FreeBSD on their blade 100 as a 
>>full blown
>>workstation with XFree86 installed and useable? when I connect the usb 
>>keyboard to
>>the system then boot into FreeBSD I get a error "panic: pcib unrecoverable 
>>DMA error AFAR 0x84008 AFSR 0x4100ff00208" then the system goes in to a 
>>endless rebooting loop. has anyone seen this problem before? I'm guessing 
>>this must be a USB keyboard related issue;
>>this only happens when I connect the USB keyboard. when I disconnect the 
>>keyboard and
>>leave the mouse connected everything works fine I just have to use the 
>>serial console.
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>No, I only use my Blade 100 headless.  The USB stack is not
>usable on FreeBSD/sparc64.  X11 servers don't work (AFAIK).  That
>is all on the todo list, but I don't anticipate a Blade 100 being
>usable as a FreeBSD workstation for a few months at least.
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>Regards,
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