Hello,
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:09:04 +0100
Julian Coleman j...@coris.org.uk wrote:
I tracked down why my SPARCle (SPARC laptop) appears to lock up on halt.
The cause is:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2012/08/15/msg036624.html
where we use the MMIO registers and alter the
Eww. IIRC that's supposed to turn off the register block that lives in
the upper 2KB of each half aperture, it didn't cause any problems with
other other Sun or Apple mach64 OFW that I have here. Should really
only be done when we have 8MB VRAM and the registers would overlap with
it.
Not
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:50:43 +0100
Julian Coleman j...@coris.org.uk wrote:
Eww. IIRC that's supposed to turn off the register block that lives in
the upper 2KB of each half aperture, it didn't cause any problems with
other other Sun or Apple mach64 OFW that I have here. Should really
only
Not altering the BUS_CNTL register would seem easier. However, detach does
work if that's not possible.
well -- this doesn't help ddb or dropping to the prom directly
does it?
i think a solution that leaves it working without any special
detach needed is the best idea here.
.mrg.
Hi,
well -- this doesn't help ddb or dropping to the prom directly
does it?
Strangely, droppping to DDB or to the PROM from DDB works fine. It's just
halt and reboot that don't work.
Thanks,
J
PS. I didn't test a kernel witout DDB.
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My other computer also runs NetBSD/
