Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread Meelis Roos
Adding proper support for the e10K console would be a nice easy sparc64 kernel project for someone who wants to get involved and has access to such a machine. Are the any specs available, or is it just reverse engineering? Don't bother with netconsole support. Orthogonally from real

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread David Miller
From: Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:08:06 +0200 (EET) Don't bother with netconsole support. Orthogonally from real console, this would be a nice-to-have. I have't looked what netpoll actually needs - some drivers get away with very simple patches. Would it be

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:08 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: Adding proper support for the e10K console would be a nice easy sparc64 kernel project for someone who wants to get involved and has access to such a machine. Are the any specs available, or is it just reverse engineering? This is the

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread David Miller
From: Tom 'spot' Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:52:40 -0600 This is the question I'd really like to hear the answer to. I can't find anything at all, either in the Sun docs or in the Internet tubes. The starfire boxes have an SRAM area on the bootbus. This is a shared

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:34 -0800, David Miller wrote: Ignore values 3, 4, and 5 for now, there is a way to redirect console output over the network with the SSP but we'll not support that yet. Maybe I'm confused here, but the only way I've been able to get to the OpenBoot console has been via