Blade 100 tester wanted
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Sun May 15 22:32:05 PDT 2005
Marius,
I tried the ISO bits on a Sparc notebook that is apparently very
similar to a Blade100 (OFW even claims that there is a video device
with an 'ATI' string in the name). Unfortunately, I was stopped by the
classic 'hangs after jumping to the kernel' problem. I guess that I
need to switch to using a serial console?
Scott
Marius Strobl wrote:
> I'm looking for someone to give native support for ATI Mach64
> graphics chips (onboard in U5/U10 and Blade 100, Sun PGX cards,
> etc.) a try on a Blade 100. The patch is at:
> http://alchemy.franken.de/~marius/kreator_machfb.diff
> and requires 6.0-current. For testing in addition to applying
> the patch and compiling a kernel with machfb(4), syscons(4),
> ukbd(4) and usb(4) enabled (have a look at how the patch changes
> the sparc64 GENERIC config file or just use that one) ttyX have
> to be enabled in /etc/ttys. To actually simplify testing I built
> custom install images which are at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~marius//6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-bootonly.iso.bz2
> and
> http://people.freebsd.org/~marius//6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso.bz2
> The checksums of these images when decompressed are:
> MD5 (6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 7694411beea290553f49520a5f174195
> MD5 (6.0-20050513-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso) = a1a08b4b9d44a636d0d60fb17263934a
>
> I'm interested in:
> - Whether the graphical console works when 'input-device' is
> set to 'keyboard' and 'output-device' to screen and an USB
> keyboard is actually plugged in.
> - Whether the monitor also comes up with the VTY when both
> 'input-device' and 'output-device' are set to 'ttya' (i.e.
> using a serial console as the primary console). When booting
> the above install images the monitor should just show an
> all white screen with a black cursor in the top left corner
> in this configuration.
> - The machfb(4) bits of the dmesg.
>
> It would be great if someone could give this a try in the next
> couple of days as the plan actually is to enable creator(4),
> machfb(4) and syscons(4) in the sparc64 GENERIC kernel for
> FreeBSD 6.0 and the code and feature freeze for 6.0 starts
> really soon now.
> In case the graphical console works X should also work. For
> Blade 100 with USB keyboards Xorg 6.8.2 actually should work
> out of the box. When using machfb(4) on e.g. a U5/U10 with a
> RS232 keyboard the keyboard probably won't work properly
> under Xorg 6.8.2; it however should work when using the old
> 'keyboard' driver instead of the new 'kbd' one (search the
> freebsd-sparc64 archives for how to compile the xorg-server
> 6.8.2 port with the 'keyboard' driver instead).
>
> Marius
>
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