Re: XVR-600 console not working with e3d [was Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]]

[Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net>]

On 2010-08-16, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
>> > >> > If it helps, I did this with the XVR-600 in my Ultra 60, but the
>> > >> > output stops with:
>> > >> > 
>> > >> > [    0.000000] OF stdout device is: /pci@1f,2000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
>> > >> > ...
>> > >> > [    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
>> > >> > [    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
>> 
>> OK, so the conclusion from this is that either e3d (sunxvr500) driver needs
>> some fixes to support XVR-600, or we need some way of getting the other one
>> to activate?
>> 
>> Cc:ing kernel mailing list in case someone there has better input.
>> I found a thread from March this year where Dave was trying and failing
>> to reproduce a similar setup - maybe Howard can provide the missing link
>> now.
>
> One more thing - Howard, can you please see:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2010/03/msg00036.html
> That link to a test kernel image in that message still works, so you could
> try it and report back.

Booting with http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/xvr600_test.img, 
I do get a console.

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 144x56
e3d: Found device at 0001:80:01.0
fbcon: e3d (fb1) is primary device
fbcon: Remapping primary device, fb1, to tty 1-63