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Date:      Sun, 15 May 2005 19:40:37 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Steven Hillis <evultrole@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jumping to kernel entry - 5.4
Message-ID:  <20050515194037.C15193@newtrinity.zeist.de>
In-Reply-To: <34059453050515070024b2c2e9@mail.gmail.com>; from evultrole@gmail.com on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:00:41AM -0700
References:  <34059453050515070024b2c2e9@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:00:41AM -0700, Steven Hillis wrote:
> Had the same problem on my Ultra 10.
> 
> While this isn't really a fix for the problem, it will probably get you there...
> 
> 5.3 installs without any trouble, so if you just do a source upgrade
> from there you'll probably be ok... just takes awhile
> 
> I didn't try the generic kernel config, but my custom kernel ran more
> or less just fine
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Along the lines of kernel upgrades, any word on why the new uart
> driver makes the system ignore 7/8 of my keystrokes on my RS232
> keyboard? I've seen a couple other people mention it, but haven't seen
> any word as to why yet...
> 

Do you by chance have both ofw_console(4) and uart(4) enabled in
the same kernel? This will cause havoc. If not the performance of
ofw_console(4) might improve if you use the OFWCONS_POLL_HZ
option in your kernel config file and set it to e.g. 20 or 25.



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