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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Erich Jenkins <erich@fuujingroup.com>
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Subject: Re: SunFire v1280
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:40:14AM -0600, Erich Jenkins wrote:
> All:
> 
> I'm running into an interesting problem with a SunFire v1280 mid-range 
> server. The system is running (12) UltraSPARC III procs @ 1.2GHz with 
> 24GB of RAM and SCSI3 spindles (no RAID). The SC and system boards are 
> running the most recent firmware, as you can see in the message below.
> 
> After trying several releases (6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2), I'm running 
> into this message below. I've tried booting from the CD-ROM and from 
> tftp/dhcp/nfs with the same results.
> 
> <snip>
> Sun Fire V1280
> OpenFirmware version 5.20.13 (06/04/09 02:43)
> Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> SmartFirmware, Copyright (C) 1996-2001.  All rights reserved.
> 24576 MB memory installed, Serial #55083219.
> Ethernet address 0:3:ba:48:80:d3, Host ID: 834880d3.
> 
> 
> Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
> TL = 1, TT = 10. ERROR: Illegal Instruction
> TSTATE= 0x1400 [ccr = 0x0, asi = 0x0, pstate = 0x14, cwp = 0x0]
> TPC= 0000000000004004
> TNPC= 0000000000004008
> TICK= 8000000845e5cbd8, TICKCMP = 8000000000000000
> 
> debugger entered.
> </snip>

While this particular problem should be easy to solve, v1280
also require several workarounds for additional quirks and
some new drivers to be written, requiring access to such a
machine in a netboot environment. How much are you interested
into getting FreeBSD to work on these and what would be the
required timeframe? In any case could you please provide a
Open Firmware device tree dump of this machine (`prtconf -pPv`
in Solaris).

Marius