From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ward Deng Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:01:57 +0000 Subject: some UltraPenguin experience Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org HI, folks, First I'd like to thank JJ and davem along with others for their excellent job on UltraLinux. Here I have something to share with you. We installed several systems during last week or so. Something we discovered could be useful for our UltraLinux team and all users: 1. We have a Symbios 22801 dual-channel SCSI controller, we tested it on an UltraAX. It worked fine under Solaris 2.6 but had some problems with UltraLinux. Kernel 2.1.99 simple hangs there during the installation after detecting it as two 53c875 based SCSI instead of one while under kernel 2.1.125, it emited the following error message: SCSI host 1 abort (pid23) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid# reset_flags=2 serial_number=xx \ serial_number_at_timeout=xx Note: here xx starts from 38 and the message repeats forever. We do not know if it is a hardware problem. 2. When I compiled the kernel, vmlinux was created without any problem but when I "make modules," it died somewhere with the following message (only a part): vfc_dev.c: In function `vfc_set_control_ioctl': vfc_dev.c:317: `MEMPRST' undeclared (first use this function) vfc_dev.c:323: `CAPTRCMD' undeclared (first use this function) vfc_dev.c:327: `DIAGMODE' undeclared (first use this function) vfc_dev.c:336: `NORMMODE' undeclared (first use this function) vfc_dev.c:343: `CAPTRSTR' undeclared (first use this function) vfc_dev.c:347: `CAPTRWAIT' undeclared (first use this function) Many modules were not compiled. Did I make any mistake during the configuration? 3. We have an Ultra30 with OpenBoot 3.11.2. However, it says "strange OpenBoot version" when I tried to boot from a tftpboot boot image. I have the file but I just do not remember where I ftp'ed from - it is slightly bigger (2612152 bytes) than 2.1.99 based version (2582793 bytes) so I guess it is newer. More interestingly, all ATI PCI cards which work perfectly on AX/AXi are not recognized by this OpenBoot. Obviously there is no support there. I know this is not an UltraLinux problem but I am curious to know if there is OpenBoot update. Do we have to say these ATI cards only work on AX/AXi but not other Sun Ultra workstations? --ward Ward Deng, Ph.D | Kachina Technologies, Inc. Vice President and COO | 4708 Douglas MacArthur Road NE, Tel: 505-888-5934 | Albuquerque NM 87110 Fax: 505-888-5902 | info@KachinaTech.COM Email: Ward.Deng@KachinaTech.COM | URL: http://www.KachinaTech.COM