On 06/01/2010 05:01 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> > This is a known issue, we still need to write a Python library for >> > probing the SBUS and hook it into anaconda. > Should it perhaps probe what the OBP reports, walking the OBP's tree? Yeah, that's pretty much what it does. We have C code that does what we need, I handed him that and he started porting away. >> > (Ironically, one was written by a co-worker of mine at my begging, but >> > he managed to lose the final code. He swears he can rewrite it, when he >> > gets a round tuit, but he's a busy guy.) > I've a number of square tuits, but very few round ones..... I could swear I had more round ones, but they must still be in a moving box somewhere... >> > You'll also need to be really patient. It takes a long time for the ESP >> > driver to detect the DVDROM on the bus. If, say, after a few minutes, it >> > still can't find the DVDROM, it would be interesting to see what is on >> > the other ttys... of course, over serial, that isn't going to be >> > practically possible. I suspect we'll need to try to reproduce this >> > failure on a machine with a video head, like an Ultra 1/2. > I have an SBUS framebuffer or two, the I/O cards can use that, and even the > E6500 has a keyboard port.... yes, you can run one in headed mode....I just > have to round up a keyboard extension for Sun....or a Sun to PS/2 adapter (I > think I have that item, if I can round it up). Hehe, well, that is an option. I wasn't going to suggest it outright. ;) ~spot _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
