Blade 100 tester wanted

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Mon May 16 03:10:41 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:31:20PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 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?

Could you please provide a full OFW tree dump? Might be something
as simple as a missing PCI ID for that chip; if that string
actually is 'ATI' rather than 'ATY' then it's at least a chip
that I'm so far not aware of being used in sparc64 machines.

Marius



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