Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:01:06 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091210000105.GA84992@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091207164941.GI6562@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091203131609.GA86854@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091206161815.GA70140@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091207155713.GF6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091207161226.GA82835@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091207164941.GI6562@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:49:41PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:12:26PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > > > > > Now my problem is graphics, or at least a text console. > > > > It looks like I've this graphics card (Sun data calles > > > > is graphics accelerator, but this the only graphics > > > > device in my 1500 blades, there is no other): > > > > > > > > Option Part description: > > > > X3780A 375-3153 XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator > > > > > > > > 3D LABS 54-001047-001 XVR-600 64MB PCI GRAPHICS CARD > > > > > > > > Anybody used this card with Sun? > > > > Is this card really not supported at all, even for > > > > text console? > > > > > > What you can do with 7.2 (with 8.0 an later this currently > > > requires the attached patch) in order to get a more or > > > rather less working text console with any hardware is to > > > build a kernel with ofw_console(4), but this requires all > > > other console and related drivers to be removed, i.e. > > > ddb(4), atkbdc(4) and its child drivers, kbdmux(4), sc(4), > > > creator(4), machfb(4), splash(4), puc(4), scc(4), uart(4) > > > and all of usb(4). > > > > > > > > > > > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for > > > > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)? > > > > > > Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to > > > use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is > > > unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as > > > Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the > > > necessary documentation). > > > > what about OpenBSD drivers: http://www.openbsd.org/45.html > > > > under what's new: > > > > # ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated). > > # wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated). > > > > Is it feasible to port a driver from obsd to fbsd? > > > > Given that the subsystems related to console drivers differ > quite heavily between FreeBSD and Net/OpenBSD it's more like > writing a new driver based on information obtained from > other drivers and experimentation with the hardware rather > than porting one but yes it's possible (see creator(4) and > machfb(4)). ok, too bad.. Anyway, I've three xvr-600 cards. I'm willing to give away one to fbsd-sparc team if somebody is interested in developing a driver for it. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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