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Re: updaing to grub on sparc64



If a solution is found for this xvr-100 to work properly, i will try again my xvr-300 on t5220 to confirm (as i also had driver issues, always stuck at vga, low colors).

Thanks!

Louis

> Le 10 juin 2018 à 06:50, Phillip Stevens <phillip.stevens@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Following on from my Ultra10 Sparc64 migration story, I've finally had
> time to install a XVR-100 graphics adapter.
> It all works pretty straight forward, by configuring it in OpenBoot correctly.
> The XVR-100 boot logo looks very nice!
> 
> But there is a problem with the radeonfb kernel driver, because
> several BAR regions can't be assigned. I guess it stops trying
> different regions when it gets to BAR 6.
> 
> And, I guess because of this, later during the boot process the
> radeonfb driver points out that it can't read the ROM nor can it
> assign BAR 6.
> 
> Possibly these are the root cause of why when the xserver loads the
> radeon driver, and then it doesn't get a match so it then unloads and
> bails out, leaving no screen.
> 
> I have posted some screen images here, for reference.
> https://feilipu.me/2018/04/14/old-sunshine-migrating-ultra5-to-sparc64/
> 
> Any thoughts on how to fix this?
> Where is the best place to file a bug report?
> 
> Cheers, Phillip
> 

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