Testers needed for upcoming 3.1 release

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Hello,

On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:49, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> macallannetbsd.org wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure OF2 can't read HFS partitions.
Only OF3 or newer can.
>
> BTW, OF2 can still read HFS floppy.
>
>>> (see PR toolchain/30245)
>
> I've updated diff in this PR and created 3.1_RC2
macppccd:
>
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/distrib-cdrom-m
acppccd 
> -3.1_RC2.diff
>
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/macppccd-3.1_RC
2.iso.gz

This one booted on a PowerBook 3400c ( OF 2.0.1 ) using
'boot  
ata1/0:0'. Got stuck while loading the kernel but that
may be a  
different issue, the important part is it loaded the loader
from :0  
unlike the unpatched RC1.

have fun
Michael
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Hi again,

I've done a clean installation of NetBSD 3.1_RC2 on the
system
commented on my previous mail and everything works fine,
including
sysinst, audio with the snapper driver, the X server with
the Radeon
driver, the gem Ethernet driver, etc....

This works like a charm 


Cheers, Marco.
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Marco Trillo
marcotrillogmail.com
http://artemis.tmdel.ath
.cx/

Hi, Michael.
Negative on G4 Gigabit Ethernet.
It hangs deadly after the
"Kernelized RAIDframe activated" line.
looks like there is a problem with the USB keyboards.
I tried to use PC keyboard via the trendnet KVM switch - the
sysinstall went further, but i also hangs after a while (the
farest
thing I managed to get through was the ddisk partitioning in
sysinstall).
The similar problem was with 2.1 but eventually I managed to
install
it with the PC keyboard (via the same KVM switch) as there
was the
same problem with the native Apple USB keyboard.
Did I do something wrong?
Sincerely, Dmitry



You wrote Tuesday, September 05, 2006, 11:47:08 PM:

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> Hello,

> please download the release candidate iso image here
>
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-1-RC2/2006090
31430Z/iso/
> and test it ( does it boot, does the installer work
properly if you 
> happen to have a partition you can wipe, etc. )
> Right now I have only an iBook G4 ( works fine ) and a
beige G3 ( known
> to be troublesome ) to test so please try it on
different hardware and
> report failures, successes and so on.

> have fun
> Michael
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Sincerely,
 Mityok                          mailto: press Reply button

Hello,
I just update my B&W G3 (Rev 1) from 3.0 to 3.1_RC2 from
the CD.
Everything went fine, and so far I do not notice any
problems thet
were not yet in my previous install.

However, still one issue on my hardware, not sure it
they're due to my
configuration: I can't start X (XFree86).  In the log the
message
(after all the usual XFree86 stuff) is:

Fatal server error:
xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=20000, a=a0000]
(Invalid argument)

The kernel securelevel is -1, if that makes a difference. 
Stock
kernel off the 3.1_RC2 cd. ATI Rage 128 card.

I also suspect I will still have the time drift issue also
reported by
Marco Trillo, but I will need to keep the machine running
for a day to
confirm it.

Joe.

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Hello,

On Sep 16, 2006, at 17:37, Joachim Thiemann wrote:

> However, still one issue on my hardware, not sure it
they're due to my
> configuration: I can't start X (XFree86).  In the log
the message
> (after all the usual XFree86 stuff) is:
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=20000, a=a0000]
(Invalid 
> argument)
>
> The kernel securelevel is -1, if that makes a
difference.  Stock
> kernel off the 3.1_RC2 cd. ATI Rage 128 card.

That's a stupid XFree driver trying the legacy VGA
framebuffer. There's 
a workaround in -current which simply hands processes doing
this the 
first 128kB of the framebuffer when 'option
OFB_FAKE_VGA_FB' is in the 
kernel config.
Fixing this in XFree's r128 driver should be trivial ( just
#ifdef all 
references to the vgahw module, like in radeon and mach64 )
but I don't 
have the hardware to test it. The vgahw module is only used
to save and 
restore VGA textmode information which is patently useless
on a mac.

have fun
Michael
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My B&W G3 just had a kernel panic dropping into db this
morning, with
the 3.1_RC2 I installed yesterday.

I was just starting a cvs update of my pkgsrc tree (cvs -q
update -P
-d as user "source") when:

trap: kernel write DSI trap  0xdd1b5318 by 0x3606fc
(DSISR 0x42000000, err=14)
panic: trap
Stopped in pid 10291.1 (cvs) at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x10:
lwz r0, r1, 0

Note that this _could_ be hardware related: I have the rev.1
B&W G3,
and thus the IDE chip that is a bit brain-damaged.  Usually
my custom
kernel restricts IDE transfer mode to (IIRC) multibyte DMA,
that is,
disallow UDMA.  This usually affects the slave drive only,
on which
the pkgsrc tree is located.  The system and swap are on the
master
drive, which should(?) be OK.

Joe.

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Hello,

On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:08, Joachim Thiemann wrote:

> My B&W G3 just had a kernel panic dropping into db
this morning, with
> the 3.1_RC2 I installed yesterday.
>
> I was just starting a cvs update of my pkgsrc tree (cvs
-q update -P
> -d as user "source") when:
>
> trap: kernel write DSI trap  0xdd1b5318 by 0x3606fc
(DSISR 
> 0x42000000, err=14)
> panic: trap
> Stopped in pid 10291.1 (cvs) at
netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x10: lwz r0, r1, 0
>
> Note that this _could_ be hardware related: I have the
rev.1 B&W G3,
> and thus the IDE chip that is a bit brain-damaged. 
Usually my custom
> kernel restricts IDE transfer mode to (IIRC) multibyte
DMA, that is,
> disallow UDMA.  This usually affects the slave drive
only, on which
> the pkgsrc tree is located.  The system and swap are on
the master
> drive, which should(?) be OK.

The IDE chip doesn't support UDMA anyway and allowing DMA
on my beige 
G3 leads to severe data corruption on the disk and in kernel
memory 
which ultimately ends in a DSI or a MCHK trap. Please
disable DMA for 
now and see if it remains stable. I put a workaround into
-current 
which simply disables DMA on heathrow-ata, if the problem
goes away 
with DMA disabled I'll have it pulled into 3.1.

have fun
Michael
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Hi, Michael.
Negative on G4 Gigabit Ethernet.
It hangs deadly after the
"Kernelized RAIDframe activated" line.
looks like there is a problem with the USB keyboards.
I tried to use PC keyboard via the trendnet KVM switch - the
sysinstall went further, but i also hangs after a while (the
farest
thing I managed to get through was the ddisk partitioning in
sysinstall).
The similar problem was with 2.1 but eventually I managed to
install
it with the PC keyboard (via the same KVM switch) as there
was the
same problem with the native Apple USB keyboard.
Did I do something wrong?
Unfortunately i cannot post the dmesg output as don't have
proper
serial cable for G4 (i got it used) but if it's absolutely
necessary,
i can try to get it out.
Sincerely, Dmitry



You wrote Tuesday, September 05, 2006, 11:47:08 PM:

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> Hello,

> please download the release candidate iso image here
>
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-1-RC2/2006090
31430Z/iso/
> and test it ( does it boot, does the installer work
properly if you 
> happen to have a partition you can wipe, etc. )
> Right now I have only an iBook G4 ( works fine ) and a
beige G3 ( known
> to be troublesome ) to test so please try it on
different hardware and
> report failures, successes and so on.

> have fun
> Michael
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 Mityok                          mailto: press Reply button

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Hello,

On Sep 19, 2006, at 17:47, Mityok wrote:

> Negative on G4 Gigabit Ethernet.
> It hangs deadly after the
> "Kernelized RAIDframe activated" line.
> looks like there is a problem with the USB keyboards.

Please file a PR so we won't forget about it. I don't have
the hardware 
to look into this but hopefully someone else does.

> Did I do something wrong?

Very unlikely.

Please check if the problem occurs in -current if you have a
way to do 
so.

have fun
Michael
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:47:08PM -0400, Michael Lorenz
wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> please download the release candidate iso image here
>
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-1-RC2/2006090
31430Z/iso/
> and test it ( does it boot, does the installer work
properly if you 
> happen to have a partition you can wipe, etc. )
> Right now I have only an iBook G4 ( works fine ) and a
beige G3 ( known 
> to be troublesome ) to test so please try it on
different hardware and 
> report failures, successes and so on.

I just booted the RC3 ISO on my 450 MHz Powerbook G4.  I've
*never*
been able to boot a NetBSD CD-ROM on this machine before, so
clearly
NetBSD 3.1 is doing something right!  Both wi0 and gem0 were
detected.

Something else that 3.1 gets right (kind of) is that I can
close the lid
without crashing NetBSD.  Presumably power management will
still not work?
That worries me a little, because I hear the Powerbook G4
will "melt down"
if it runs too long with the lid closed.

sysinst failed the fsck_ffs step on /dev/wd0a (good, since
that is my
Mac OS X swap), but it proceeded to the installboot stage
(scary!).

I'm very pleased with the improved level of support for my
old Powerbook.

I have some Mac clones I will try out, soon.

Dave

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