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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:13:25 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <20050610231325.GA2560@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200506102311.j5ANBGYL006473@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200506102311.j5ANBGYL006473@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:11:16PM +0000, Marius Strobl wrote:
> marius      2005-06-10 23:11:16 UTC
>=20
>   FreeBSD src repository
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     sys/sparc64/conf     GENERIC=20
>   Log:
>   Turn on atkbdc(4), atkbd(4), creator(4), machfb(4), syscons(4), ohci(4),
>   psm(4), ukbd(4), ums(4) and usb(4) on by default. Modulo some nits with
>   the most annoying one probably being USB keyboards no longer working at
>   the OFW boot prompt after halting FreeBSD these drivers work fine on
>   sparc64 including X and there's nothing left that I'd consider a show-
>   stopper. I.e. graphical consoles on sun4u machines should either work
>   out of the box or by plugging in a card that is supported by either
>   creator(4) or machfb(4). The exception obviously are SBus-only machines
>   without UPA slots like some Ultra 1 (but which also still lack support
>   in other areas) and certain Exx0 (but which probably are mainly used
>   with serial consoles anyway). I'll try to add a cgsix(4) for these later
>   as Sun CG6 cards are probably the most common SBus framebuffer cards in
>   sun4u machines. I however don't see much sense in adding drivers for the
>   dozen of SBus framebuffers that were destined for sparc v8 machines.
>   The rest of the USB drivers aren't enabled as I'm only aware of ukbd(4)
>   and ums(4) as well as ohci(4) working with the on-board ALI M5237 and
>   Sun PCIO-2 controllers. Aue(4) definitely doesn't work on sparc64, yet.
>  =20
>   Thanks to:
>   - Jake for the initial work on syscons(4) on sparc64 and creator(4).
>   - Marcel for uart(4) and especially for its support for the SCCs which
>     are only used on sparc64 so far. In various regards it wouldn't have
>     been possible to enable syscons(4) by default on sparc64, yet, without
>     uart(4).
>   - All that tested patches.
>  =20
>   Ok'ed by:       scottl (RE hat), tmm

Excellent news!

Kris
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