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wysoft | 2 Oct 2002 07:17

1.6/Xsun24/TCX CG8 emulation

Hi..

Before, when I had 1.5.2 installed, I was using my Sun's S24(TCX) with 24-bit
color using the patches which were created by Charles Carvalho (are you still
around, Charles? :). I have upgraded to 1.6, and in the process I noticed
that these patches were merged into the TCX driver. So, I enabled the CG8
emulation, compiled, and rebooted. OK, card picks up fine and reports it's
in CG8 mode - same as before.

However... When I try to start Xsun24, I get this message:

Fatal Server Error:
CG24UpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP Failed.

I get the same error when using the modified 1.5.2 Xsun24 which was a part
of the old TCX 24-bit patches. Both servers recognize the TCX as a cg8/MEMCOLOR
when queried with the -fbinfo flag.

This SHOULD be working. That's all I can really say about it. Hopefully someone
can shed some light on the issue?
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Andy R | 2 Oct 2002 07:54
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Netbooting questions

I'm pretty new to this whole netbooting thing, but I
have a few questions. The diskless man page for sparc
says this:

"Your system will not netboot without a working
NVRAM."

Is this 100% true or can I fudge a mac address using
mkp (which is what I have been doing for a while to
run the thing with a disk).

The next thing is this. I'm going step by step through
the diskless setup web pages, and I've set up rarp,
tftp and nfs. When I type this on my machine (sparc1):

ok boot net

And get the error:

The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum
is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.Got
error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not found

I get this in the syslog of my server:

Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]: received packet
on ex0
Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]:
08:00:20:ff:ff:ff asked; sparky.andy.com replied
Oct  2 05:45:47 roadrunner tftpd[780]: 192.168.1.6:
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Jared D. McNeill | 2 Oct 2002 07:57
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Re: Netbooting questions

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andy R wrote:
> Oct  2 05:45:47 roadrunner tftpd[780]: 192.168.1.6:
> read request for /tftpboot/C0A80106.SUN4C: File not
> found
>
> Well, this file does indeed exist: roadrunner# pwd /tftpboot roadrunner#
> ls -l total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35 Oct 1 22:44 C0A80106.SUN4C ->
> /home/sparky/root/usr/mdec/boot.net

I know this sounds odd, but make /tftpboot/tftpboot a symlink to
/tftpboot. It should fix the "file not found" problem.

Cheers,
Jared

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Andy R | 2 Oct 2002 08:02
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Re: Netbooting questions

--- "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill <at> invisible.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andy R wrote:
> > Oct  2 05:45:47 roadrunner tftpd[780]:
> 192.168.1.6:
> > read request for /tftpboot/C0A80106.SUN4C: File
> not
> > found
> >
> > Well, this file does indeed exist: roadrunner# pwd
> /tftpboot roadrunner#
> > ls -l total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35 Oct 1
> 22:44 C0A80106.SUN4C ->
> > /home/sparky/root/usr/mdec/boot.net
> 
> I know this sounds odd, but make /tftpboot/tftpboot
> a symlink to
> /tftpboot. It should fix the "file not found"
> problem.

Huh? (With scooby doo sounds)

Tried it:

roadrunner# ln -s /tftpboot tftpboot

Got this error

ok boot net
Booting from: le(0,0,0) <- This was there before, I
omitted it
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matthew green | 2 Oct 2002 08:11
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re: Netbooting questions


   "Your system will not netboot without a working
   NVRAM."

   Is this 100% true or can I fudge a mac address using
   mkp (which is what I have been doing for a while to
   run the thing with a disk).

well - using mkp etc recreates a working NVRAM :)  it's just 
not very non-volatile  :)

   The next thing is this. I'm going step by step through
   the diskless setup web pages, and I've set up rarp,
   tftp and nfs. When I type this on my machine (sparc1):

   ok boot net

   And get the error:

   The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum
   is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.Got
   error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not found

so - you haven't done enough 'mkp' steps :-)  re-read the NVRAM faq.

   I get this in the syslog of my server:

   Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]: received packet
   on ex0
   Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]:
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Rick Kelly | 2 Oct 2002 08:23

Re: Netbooting questions

matthew green said:

># cd /tftpboot
># ln -s . tftpboot

>and see if that works - tftpd i think chroot()'s by default these days,
>so asking for /tftpboot/foo doesn't work.

Exactly, /tftpboot should be just a link.

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David Brownlee | 2 Oct 2002 11:58
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Re: Netbooting questions

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andy R wrote:

> I'm pretty new to this whole netbooting thing, but I
> have a few questions. The diskless man page for sparc
> says this:
>
> "Your system will not netboot without a working
> NVRAM."
>
> Is this 100% true or can I fudge a mac address using
> mkp (which is what I have been doing for a while to
> run the thing with a disk).
>
	That will also work.

> The next thing is this. I'm going step by step through
> the diskless setup web pages, and I've set up rarp,
> tftp and nfs. When I type this on my machine (sparc1):
>
> ok boot net
>
> And get the error:
>
> The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum
> is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.Got
> error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not found
>
> I get this in the syslog of my server:
>
> Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]: received packet
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Andy R | 2 Oct 2002 15:09
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re: Netbooting questions

--- matthew green <mrg <at> eterna.com.au> wrote:
> well - using mkp etc recreates a working NVRAM :) 
> it's just 
> not very non-volatile  :)

This is fine for now. I have a new NVRAM, but I just
haven't put it in yet. Laziness. And the machine is
buried.

> so - you haven't done enough 'mkp' steps :-) 
> re-read the NVRAM faq.

Yes, this was a very astute suggestion. I forgot to
set the hostid, which is necessary for netbooting. In
my particular case, I needed to do:

51 1 mkp

Where 51 is the hostid for an SS1. The NVRAM/HostID
FAQ is our friend.

Thanks!

Andy

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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 2 Oct 2002 20:02
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Fatter faster strlen

Some time ago I ported sparc64 strlen to sparc.  It's fatter: 144
bytes vs 28 bytes of the current one.  It is faster then the old one
for strings of 5 bytes that starts word aligned and faster for strings
of 8 bytes and longer regardless of alignemnt (actual numbers variy
+/-1 from cpu to cpu).  It's about 2x faster for strings that are
about 20+ bytes long.  Asymptotically it's about 2.5x faster.

The new strlen and a small profiling harness are at:

    http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/volatile/strlen.tgz

I wonder if it's worth comitting.

SY, Uwe
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