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

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 18:38, David Miller wrote: int ret = sys_open((const char __user *)/dev/console, O_RDWR, 0); if(ret 0) printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: unable to open an initial console (%d)\n, ret); I wonder what return code it will give (-EFAULT is my guess). It's not getting

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-27 Thread Tõnu Samuel
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:10 -0800, David Miller 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. I am ready to provide access to any kernel developer or other who uses it for

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-27 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:17 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Looking at init/main.c: if (sys_open((const char __user *) /dev/console, O_RDWR, 0) 0) printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n); That looks almost like a bug :-/ /dev/console will decay into a pointer

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 09:37, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: int ret = sys_open((const char __user *)/dev/console, O_RDWR, 0); if(ret 0) printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: unable to open an initial console (%d)\n, ret); I wonder what return code it will give (-EFAULT is my guess). Warning:

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-27 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:17:53 +0100 (MET) Looking at init/main.c: if (sys_open((const char __user *) /dev/console, O_RDWR, 0) 0) printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n); That looks almost like a bug :-/

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-26 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:17 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:12 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:05 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:25 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: TS Warning: unable to open an initial console.

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-21 Thread Meelis Roos
TS Warning: unable to open an initial console. Try to use network console if the native console is not supported. netconsole=..., see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt -- Meelis Roos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe sparclinux in the body of a message to [EMAIL