Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:45:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Thomas McIntyre <temac@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gem0 not working on sparc64 current Message-ID: <20030624184541.GS57612@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030624183520.99348.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030624183520.99348.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thomas McIntyre wrote this message on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:35 -0700:
> Anybody know why recent CURRENT kernels have switched gem0 on my
> sparc64 Netra from the physical port marked 0 to the one marked 1?
> The same thing happened when testing the install of gentoo sparc64,
> but 5.1 had it right on RELEASE; it just recently flip flopped.
You can blame me for that. On the -RELEASE, not all machines were
probing the second gem device. So, I fixed this, but since we do
our own enumeration of PCI (tmm has patches to use OFW), your port 1
is now being probed before port 0 causing the switch.
> It took some head scratching before figuring out to try plugging the
> patch cable into the other port.
My fault for not posting a heads up to -sparc64 about that.
> 2) It would appear that fdisk and disklabel don't work. Going back
> to the install program to partition the second disk is what caused
> the installation havoc above. Anybody know how sysinstall does it's
> dirty work? I'm trying to setup vinum and would rather not bounce
> through the menu.
sunlabel is your friend. on Sparc64, fdisk is not useful (only on x86
similar systems), and disklabel has been removed in preference to bsdlabel
and sunlabel.
I can't address your other issues, maybe someone else can?
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