[SPARCbook] re:waitek FB and Solaris 9

[Federico Lucifredi]

There is more on the web at
http://soldc.sun.com/developer/support/driver/tools/video/video-index.html

unfortunately, the XF86 to solaris device driver porting kit is for solaris
intel only, no sparc, but it certainly makes for an interesting read anyhow.

    -Federico

----- Original Message -----
From: "Federico Lucifredi" <flucifredi at acm.org>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:38
Subject: [SPARCbook] re:waitek FB and Solaris 9


> 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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