sparc64: Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 (listed untested) - RAMDISK dmesg + notes

The Tadpole SPARCbook 5000/6500 is currently on the sparc64 page under
"Untested machines (please help us test!)". I have a 6500 and OpenBSD 7.9
boots on it.

This machine's IDPROM is invalid (dead NVRAM battery).
OpenBoot reports "The IDPROM contents are invalid", ethernet address
0:0:0:0:0:0, host ID 00000040. OpenBSD boots fine. Some of what follows is
downstream of that and would not appear on a machine with a good IDPROM.

Hardware: SPARCbook 6500, UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz, 4GB RAM, ATI Rage Mobility
with a 1400x1050 panel, dual Davicom DM9102 ethernet, two TI PCI1225 CardBus
slots, Acer Labs M1533 southbridge, Toshiba SD-R6112 DVD-ROM.

This dmesg is from the 7.9 RAMDISK booted off CD; the internal disk is out of
the machine for imaging. I will send a dmesg from a real install once I have
one, if that is useful.

1. clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff fails with "can't map register". prtc0 attaches
   and the system gets "WARNING: bad clock chip time". The TOD clock is
   unusable. Possibly IDPROM-related, possibly not.

2. Cosmetic: the clock1 attach line is missing a newline before the error, so
   it prints as "clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fffclock1: can't map register".

3. Both dc(4) interfaces come up with address 00:00:00:00:00:00, since the
   station address comes from the IDPROM. Setting lladdr by hand works.

4. "Acer Labs M7101 Power" at pci0 dev 17 not configured. OpenBoot probes a
   "tadpmu" node on device 7. No battery, thermal or fan information is
   available. I believe NetBSD has a tadpmu driver for the SPARCLE; I do not
   know whether anything equivalent exists here.

5. "Acer Labs M5451 Audio" at pci0 dev 8 not configured. No audio.

6. "flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured.

7. machfb0 reports "aperture needed".

Otherwise everything attaches: CPU, all 4GB, both CardBus and PCMCIA slots,
USB (a Kingston stick enumerates and works), the DVD-ROM, and the internal
keyboard, which works without any Tadpole-specific driver. That last point may
be worth noting for anyone else with one of these, since the SPARCbook keyboard
is a known problem under stock Solaris.

Happy to test patches or run anything else on it.

-Shane

dmesg follows.

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OpenBSD 7.9 (RAMDISK) #158: Wed May  6 18:53:40 MDT 2026
    [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/RAMDISK
real mem = 4294967296 (4096MB)
avail mem = 4208353280 (4013MB)
random: boothowto does not indicate good seed
mainbus0 at root: SPARCbook 6500 (UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (rev 3.3) @ 650 MHz
cpu0: physical 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 512K external (64 b/l)
psycho0 at mainbus0: pci108e,a001, impl 0, version 0, ign 7c0
psycho0: bus range 0-255, PCI bus 0
psycho0: dvma map c0000000-dfffffff
pci0 at psycho0
ebus0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Altera EBus" rev 0x01
"flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured
clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fffclock1: can't map register
ebus1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Acer Labs M1533 ISA" rev 0x00
"dma" at ebus1 addr 0-ffff not configured
com0 at ebus1 addr 3f8-3ff ivec 0x2b: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at ebus1 addr 60-67, 60-67 ivec 0x29 ivec 0x26 ivec 0x2a
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
"Acer Labs M7101 Power" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 not configured
dc0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Davicom DM9102" rev 0x31: ivec 0x7df, address 00:00:00:00:00:00
amphy0 at dc0 phy 1: DM9102, rev. 0
dc1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Davicom DM9102" rev 0x31: ivec 0x7c6, address 00:00:00:00:00:00
amphy1 at dc1 phy 1: DM9102, rev. 0
"Acer Labs M5451 Audio" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
cbb0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "TI PCI1225 CardBus" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7da
cbb1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 "TI PCI1225 CardBus" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7d0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Acer Labs M5237 USB" rev 0x03: ivec 0x7e4, version 1.0, legacy support
pciide0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Acer Labs M5229 IDE" rev 0xc3: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI
pciide0: using ivec 0x7cc for native-PCI interrupt
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, DVD-ROM SD-R6112, 1031> removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
machfb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "ATI Mach64" rev 0x64
machfb0: ATY,RageMobility, 1400x1050
machfb0: aperture needed
wsdisplay0 at machfb0: console (std, sun emulation), using wskbd0
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x10, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x10, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Acer Labs OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
prtc0 at mainbus0
softraid0 at root
scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
bootpath: /pci@1f,0/ide@d,0/cdrom@2,0:f
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
WARNING: bad clock chip time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!