Re: updaing to grub on sparc64
My apologies. Sorry Chris, Adrian.
I'll start a new thread.
P.
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 at 16:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Could you please have this discussion in a separate thread and not hi-jack Chris’ thread for that?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> > On Jun 10, 2018, at 2:09 PM, louis ayotte <pocketpc2004@live.ca> wrote:
> >
> > 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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