On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:45:15PM -0500, Charles Fultz wrote:
> > Back from Christmas vacation now. Working on the sun4cdm problem that
> > many people are reporting...the thing where certain SPARCstation 5s and
> > 10s have keyboard map problems. I think that it's because I enabled PCI
> > and PS/2 keyboard support in that kernel, but I'm not sure. I took a look
> > at what Debian does for their sun4cdm kernel and they seem to do about the
> > same as I, but have a totally seperate kernel for the PCI-enabled sun4cdm
> > machines.
>
> I have talked to several people that have been using and working with
> Sun Sparc hardware for 10+ years and they assure me that there are NO
> 32bit (sun4[cdm]) machines that have PCI interfaces.
>
> Do some research and you'll that it's true. I guarantee that you will
> not find a 32bit (sun4[cdm]) that has a PCI bus/interface.
Well, I don't know. I've certainly never seen one. If one doesn't exist,
why is it an option in the kernel for 32-bit SPARC machines? Looking at
what Debian does, I see that they offer a kernel image named "sun4dm_pci".
I know that Sun never made a 32-bit SPARC system that used PCI, but
perhaps a clone manufacturer did. I just can't understand why it's an
option if there were no machines built that way.
I'm sure that if such a machine exists, there are a very small number of
them. Even the first UltraSPARC systems from Sun used SBus...they didn't
start using PCI until a couple years later.
OK, the argument aside, has anyone built a kernel on a 32-bit SPARC system
with the PCI option enabled and booted it to verify that it does the same
thing that the 32-bit SPARC kernels do in the distribution? We all seem
to agree that this is the cause of the problem, but I'd just like someone
to test out the theory before I rebuild the kernels and upload them to the
FTP site.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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