Re: netra t4

Johan Verrept sent a patch to this list and DaveM on 26.Jan.2003 for 
proper booting on the T4, but it apparently never made it into the 
kernel sources (as per bkbits).  It does not specifically address the 
SAB issue, but does address the fill_ebus_child issue.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html


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VEGH Karoly wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
>>>>This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel.
>>>>What images are you using? 
>>>
>>>from ftp.debian.org:
>>
>>Try the images here:
>>
>>http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/
> 
> 
> tried: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img
> 
> 1: booting with a simple 'boot net'
> 
> -----------------
> 
> ok boot net
> Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1:  File and args:               
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 535400 
> Remapping the kernel... done.
> Booting Linux...
> UGH: property for SUNW,lomv was 24, need < 1
> 
> -------------------
> 
> as for the last line, I found the following URL:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200302/msg00034.html
> 
> 
> 
> 2: booting with 'boot net linux -p'
> 
> --------------------
> 
> ok boot net linux -p                                                                          
> Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1:  File and args: linux -p                              
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet                                                           
> 535400                                                                                        
> PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10
> <4>Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003
> <4>ARCH: SUN4U
> Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003
> <4>ARCH: SUN4U
> ARCH: SUN4U
> Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb
> Remapping the kernel... done.
> On node 0 totalpages: 195776
> zone(0): 196447 pages.
> zone(1): 0 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Booting Linux...
> Found CPU 0 (nodeð06fb30,mid=0)
> Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
> Kernel command line: linux -p
> Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 1547720k available (2504k kernel code, 576k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005febe000]
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
> Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: Probing for controllers.
> SCHIZO0 PBMB: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004700000]
> SCHIZO0 PBMB: PCI CFG[7ffee000000] IO[7ffef000000] MEM[7fe00000000]
> SCHIZO0 PBMA: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004600000]
> SCHIZO0 PBMA: PCI CFG[7ffec000000] IO[7ffed000000] MEM[7fd00000000]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1d]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1f]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[18]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[19]
> PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 4] map[0] to INO[04]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[01]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 1] map[1] to INO[02]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 2] map[1] to INO[03]
> PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 3] map[1] to INO[00]
> PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz
> ebus0: [flashprom] [bbc] [power] [i2c -> (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (1
> <0>Kernel panic: fill_ebus_child
>  Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> 
> hope this tells you more than it does to me... 
> 
> thanks for the help,
> 
> 
> charlie
> 
>