Re: Problems booting 2.6.18 on SunBlade 100/150

["Per Øyvind Karlsen" <pkarlsen@mandriva.com>]

Torsdag 19 oktober 2006 13:07, skrev Jim Watson:
> On 07/01/2004, at 5:29 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> > I'm left puzzled here now, will your display work correctly when
> > disabling
> > framebuffer with 'video=atyfb:off'? And if you're disabling it, why
> > do you
> > need to compile support for it?
> >
> > My experience is that I need atyfb properly working to intialize
> > display,
> > otherwise it'll boot with not display (openboot screen will stay
> > and no linux
> > output is displayed, while machine is actually booting and serial
> > can be
> > used).
> >
> > Am I missing something here..? (I'm fairly new to sparc, so please
> > have
> > patience:o)
>
> Hi Per,
>
> i am puzzled too - lets wait and see if anyone provides some
> explanation...
>
> There are two issues here:
>
> (a) i chose to use the debian config file to build a kernel that will
> run - the explanation is that I have no idea what to configure, but
> the debian config is known to work
>
> (b) the kernel that I did build that way, will not run, unless I boot
> with video:atyfb=off
>
> This is on a sunblade100, it may be different on other sparc...you
> need to report what you are using
>
> regrads
>
> jim
Yes, but what I was wondering about is if you got any display at all or were 
relying on serial console or something? Is it possible to have display 
without framebuffer?

My config etc. were working fine with 2.6.17-rc3, don't know when the atyfb 
breakage occured, but in 2.6.17 it was broken...
-- 
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Mandriva