[SPARCbook] re:waitek FB and Solaris 9

[Federico Lucifredi]

Gentleman,
    I have a "solaris device driver dev kit" (January 2001) on my desk --
now this is for Solaris 8. Anybody got the 9.0 edition ? Or any pointers as
to where to get it ?

    Still wondering if I have enough time to waste to get around to actually
pull it off ... ;-)

    -Federico


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Schwarz" <mschwarz at multitool.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:35
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Re: P9000 Linux Framebuffer "kind of" working


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> > or you could run NetBSD or OpenBSD, both of which have had X11 support
for
> > the sparcbook 3 family (certainly those with the p9100 chip) "out of the
> > box" with no fuss for years. No recompiling. No special kernels. I've
run
> > OpenBSD on my sparcbook from version 2.7 onwards (current is 3.2).
> >
> > I got my SB from someone else who was running OpenBSD on it then (hi
bob)
> > so it's been natively supported in the sparc port (but missing a few
handy
> > things like PCMCIA support :/) for a while. Like over five years even.
The
> > framebuffer is treated like a cg3 which is only 8-bit (and not the 24bit
I
> > understand my 3GS to be capable of but am unwilling to bear running a
> > modern solaris with 32MB of RAM).
> >
> > I've been wondering if this would just work on an SB3 like yours. IIRC
you
> > didn't have a cdrom or some kind of fundamental boot device. I've
> > installed Open & Net onto my 3GS using an install floppy and by
netbooting
> > (RARP+TFTP). I imagine I could install off tape too but I haven't been
> > that much of a masochist. With OpenBSD it's easy enough to dd the cdrom
> > boot image onto another disk partition or, I guess, tape. Once the
install
> > kernel and image is loaded you can clobber the disk partition and/or
> > install from the network more conventionally (DHCP & then
> > HTTP/FTP/NFS/whatever)
>
> Linux also supports the P9100.  The older Sparcbook 3 (with the 50MHz
> MicroSparc) has a P9000.  I installed Linux on it using RARP/TFTP (better
> known as BOOTP).  I'd be having the same problems with NetBSD or OpenBSD.
> Thanks, though, for your thoughts and observations.
>
> - --
> Michael Schwarz
> http://www.multitool.net
> mschwarz at multitool.net
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