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Tim Rightnour | 2 Jul 2006 09:00
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Prep port status update

A few things since my last update..

Mostly I've been re-organizing alot of the code to deal with future
improvements.  I've fixed MPIC detection on the mcp750 and the F40, as well as
fixed some problems with interrupts on the Powerstack E1.  Prep now has
timecounter support, as well as full root device detection on motorola machines.

we ethernet on prep:  It would appear that only on the 7248, we ethernet will
not work unless you initialize the VGA.  I've stripped the VGA reset code out
of the com0 boot loader, and made a new one with both com0 and vga reset.  This
way the com0 bootloader will work properly on some of the wierder machines like
the F40.

PCi bridge cards should now work.  Specifically, I have tested it with a 4-port
fxp ethernet card.

Also, the powerpc port has been switched to gcc4, so 4.0 will ship with gcc4.

And the current todo list:

1) Support for RS6k/CHRP style machines, ie the mcp750 and 7025-F40
- We are getting there..  shouldn't be long now.
2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
- Getting there
3) Power control, including power off on halt -p
- Should be easy to do.. just haven't done it yet.
4) Power management
- Waiting for new power management API.
5) X server support for the 7248
- Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might tackle this after the x.org
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David Brownlee | 3 Jul 2006 15:41
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Re: ibm rs6000

 	If its PReP compliant then it may be supported by NetBSD/prep:
 		http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/prep/
 	If its one of the earlier MCA based machines, then that may be
 	harder...

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Christophe Guerin wrote:

> hello,
>
> i've got a rs6000 340 with aix 3.2.5 and i want to have a new system for it. 
> is it possible to have a version of NetBSD for it ?
>
> thank.
> sorry for my bad english :(
>
> toff
>

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David Brownlee | 3 Jul 2006 15:41
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Re: ibm rs6000

 	If its PReP compliant then it may be supported by NetBSD/prep:
 		http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/prep/
 	If its one of the earlier MCA based machines, then that may be
 	harder...

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Christophe Guerin wrote:

> hello,
>
> i've got a rs6000 340 with aix 3.2.5 and i want to have a new system for it. 
> is it possible to have a version of NetBSD for it ?
>
> thank.
> sorry for my bad english :(
>
> toff
>

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Andreas Mueller | 3 Jul 2006 23:38

Re: Prep port status update

You wrote:
> PCi bridge cards should now work.  Specifically, I have tested it
> with a 4-port fxp ethernet card.

Does this include support for the Adaptec ANA-6944/TX? This is a 4-port 
tlp ethernet card, so it has four Digital 21140 attached to an Digital 
21152 PCI bridge.

> And the current todo list:
>
> 1) Support for RS6k/CHRP style machines, ie the mcp750 and 7025-F40
> - We are getting there..  shouldn't be long now.
> 2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
> - Getting there
> 3) Power control, including power off on halt -p
> - Should be easy to do.. just haven't done it yet.
> 4) Power management
> - Waiting for new power management API.
> 5) X server support for the 7248
> - Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might tackle this after
> the x.org import.  No sense in doing it twice.  It's also not very
> high on my list.
> 6) Bootable CDROM image 
> - No progress on this.
> 7) Audio support for the machines that have it via pnpbus
> - No progress here.
> 8) Create pnpbus device for the PCMCIA on the thinkpad
> - No progress
> 9) Webpage FAQ and cleanup
> - No progress
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Patrick Finnegan | 5 Jul 2006 06:20
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Re: ibm rs6000

On Monday 03 July 2006 09:41, you wrote:
>  	If its PReP compliant then it may be supported by NetBSD/prep:
>  		http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/prep/
>  	If its one of the earlier MCA based machines, then that may be
>  	harder...

The 340 is a Microchannel machine.  One of the oldest/slowest ones too, I 
think 33MHz...

So, no, you're not probably going to be able to run anything but AIX on that 
machine.

Pat

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Christophe Guerin wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > i've got a rs6000 340 with aix 3.2.5 and i want to have a new system for
> > it. is it possible to have a version of NetBSD for it ?
> >
> > thank.
> > sorry for my bad english :(
> >
> > toff

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Tim Rightnour | 11 Jul 2006 06:12
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Re: Prep port status update


On 03-Jul-2006 Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Does this include support for the Adaptec ANA-6944/TX? This is a 4-port 
> tlp ethernet card, so it has four Digital 21140 attached to an Digital 
> 21152 PCI bridge.

I suspect it will work. Actually, I'd be surprised if it did not, and want to
hear about it either way.  (My test card was 4 fxp's behind I think a 21150
bridge)

>> 5) X server support for the 7248
>> - Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might tackle this after
>> the x.org import.  No sense in doing it twice.  It's also not very
>> high on my list.
>
> Is there any way I can help, such as testing or providing remote machine 
> access? As I have a 7248, I'm specifically interested in point 5 of 
> your list above...

Hrmm.. Is that something people are actually interested in?  I mean it's neat
and all that to run X on it, but it never seemed like something I would want to
do for a long period of time.  Do you really want to run your 7248 as a desktop?

Right now the biggest way people can help, is to test boot kernels that I will
occasionally post links to on the list.  Some of my changes are pretty
far-reaching, and it's best to test it on as many machines as possible.  This
is especially true for machines I don't own.  I own only a 7248, a 7043-100 and
a 7024-E20.

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Tim Rightnour | 12 Jul 2006 23:48
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RE: Prep port status update


On 02-Jul-2006 Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
> - Getting there

Done.. Just committed it.  It's currently a bit of a hack, but it will at least
make the machines more useable until a real solution is found.  (Basically the
machine is powercycled, instead of rebooted via an automatic powerup time set 2
minutes in the future)

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Tim Rightnour | 13 Jul 2006 21:04
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Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines


I'm looking for anyone who has a Motorola, or other machine with PPCBUG
firmware to test boot the following kernel and send the complete output to me.
I am hoping to improve support for these machines, and if your machine can boot
the image and produces viable output, it should be supportable under
NetBSD/prep.

http://www.garbled.net/tmp/prep-residual-boot.fs

I am especially interested in any MVME160x machines, or MPC82xx machines.  I
also suspect that the image will work on a Motorola Powerstack II with ppcbug. 

This image will not work on boards with DINK32 or OpenFirmWorks (unless they
also have PPCBUG, in which case you need to boot the image from PPCBUG)

The image is a complete netboot image, kernel and all in one file.  You should
be able to netboot it directly.  I use the following line in /etc/bootptab to
netboot these images:

botien:\
 :sm=255.255.255.0:ht=ethernet:ha=000629ba4bf0:\
 :gw=192.168.10.11:ip=192.168.10.29:bf=boot.fs:rp=/usr/src/distrib

(just place the image in /tftpboot/boot.fs, and enable bootpd and tftpd in
inetd.conf)

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John D. Baker | 17 Jul 2006 05:06

Re: Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines

I booted the image on my MTX604-010A board.  The output can be found at:

     http://mylinuxisp.com/~jdbaker/misc/prep-resid-boot-MTX604-010A.log

It hung after a timeout probing the SCSI host adapter (esiop).

I'm looking forward to being able to run NetBSD on this machine
(currently has an ancient Debian-potato install on the local disks).

Hope this helps.

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Tim Rightnour | 17 Jul 2006 08:55
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Re: Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines


On 17-Jul-2006 John D. Baker wrote:
> It hung after a timeout probing the SCSI host adapter (esiop).
> 
> I'm looking forward to being able to run NetBSD on this machine
> (currently has an ancient Debian-potato install on the local disks).
> 
> Hope this helps.

This does help immensly.  I'm fairly confident that this machine can run
NetBSD/prep.  I'm currently working on another machine that looks very similar
to this one, so I imagine that once that one is working, yours will work too. 
I may send you a kernel in the future to boot on it to test.

If it's possible to get me remote access to the machine, that would speed
things up alot.

One last question.. you say its an "MTX604-010A"  What kind of machine is it? 
A motorola VME board?

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