Testers needed for upcoming 3.1 release

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:04:31PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> 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.

I forgot to mention, I used 'boot cd:ofwboot.xcf
netbsd.macppc' at the
OpenFirmware prompt.

Dave

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Hello,

On Sep 25, 2006, at 20:04, David Young wrote:

> 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.

Thank Izumi-san for that 

> 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?

Good to know and no, there's no real power management so far
besides  
putting the CPU to sleep when idle.

> That worries me a little, because I hear the Powerbook
G4 will "melt  
> down"
> if it runs too long with the lid closed.

If it's idle it shouldn't heat up too much. I committed
drivers for  
some fan controllers a while ago - if your powerbook happens
to be  
supported you can lower the threshold to keep it cool enough
( see  
sysctl machdep.* )
If not please have a look at your OF device tree, there
should be a  
'fan' node somewhere, its 'compatible' property should tell
us what  
kind of temperature sensor / fan controller you have (
likely some  
Analog Devices i2c part, data sheets should be available and
writing a  
driver should be more or less trivial )

> 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!).

Not sure about that - on OF3 we don't really need to do any
installboot  
voodoo IIRC.

have fun
Michael
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Hi, i want to use netbsd-3.1-rc3, but i have many problems.
I can`t boot the netbsd-3.1-rc3 iso from a cd, also if it
installed on a 
hfs partition. i don`t boot it.
For this reason I installed netbsd-3.0.1 and want to upgrade
to 3.1-rc3 
with cvs -d anoncvsanoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot co -r
netbsd-3-1-RC3 -P 
src.
Then I do/ build.sh tools kernel=GENERIC_MD distribution,
and copy the 
kernel./ But now as I want to reboot, in the openfirmware
comes the 
following errors: Invalid memory access at... and
*decrementer* 
exeception error.
I don`t know, wahat I can do. If one of you have a idea, say
it me. How 
I get netbsd-3.1-RC3 on my Powerbook, last Revision, with
1,5ghz.

Jens Wurm

Hi!
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure it can be worked around at least.
Someone's working 
>> on a rewrite of out PMU communication code, not
sure when it will be 
>> ready though.
>>
>> So, if you can please build a kernel without
>> abtn*    at adb?
>> and see if that helps. If you can't build a kernel
please let me know 
>> and I'll build one for you.
>>
>
> Does userconf not work? boot -a and add -c to the
kernel arguments to 
> stop at userconf and just disable abtn. (That is if the
keyboard will 
> work at this point)
>
I've cross-built a new Kernel without "abtn*    at
adb?", based on 
3.1RC3 sources.

--> Same results: kernel stops at device "i2s",
the System is switched off.
"boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd -c" works stopping at
"uc>" prompt. 
Keyboard input is possible.

Kernel output:
------------------------------------
console keyboard type: unknown, assuming ADB
NetBSD 3.0.1_STABLE (GENERIC_PB58_MD)  #0: Sat Sep 30
17:57:34 CEST 2006
       total memory: 2048 MB
       avail memory: 1973 MB

userconf: ......
uc>
-----------------------------------

I still suppose, that the problem doesn't have anything to
do with 
brightness and keyboard, but with a device, that a device
driver cannot 
handle correctly (maybe?); something with follows
"i2s" directly...


Best regards. / Hilmar.

Jens Wurm wrote:
> Hi, i want to use netbsd-3.1-rc3, but i have many
problems.
> I can`t boot the netbsd-3.1-rc3 iso from a cd, also if
it installed on a 
> hfs partition. i don`t boot it.
> For this reason I installed netbsd-3.0.1 and want to
upgrade to 3.1-rc3 
> with cvs -d anoncvsanoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot
co -r netbsd-3-1-RC3 -P 
> src.
> Then I do/ build.sh tools kernel=GENERIC_MD
distribution, and copy the 
> kernel./ But now as I want to reboot, in the
openfirmware comes the 
> following errors: Invalid memory access at... and
*decrementer* 
> exeception error.
> I don`t know, wahat I can do. If one of you have a
idea, say it me. How 
> I get netbsd-3.1-RC3 on my Powerbook, last Revision,
with 1,5ghz.
> 
> Jens Wurm
> 

I've also been unable to boot the release candidates on a
PowerBook 6,8
(12" screen, 1.5Ghz processor). I found several mailing
list posts from
back in February[1] that included some suggested
workarounds. However,
when I tried to install from both a netbsd-3 and netbsd4
build with the
changes included, I still had no success. With netbsd-4, I
get a screen
with a hex dump, which is replaced by another screen with a
circle in it
before I can read the dump.

Is there any diagnostic settings in Open Firmware that I can
either use
to see the hex dump or display any other information that
may help solve
this issue?

Regards,

Chris

[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2006/02/09
/0001.html
     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2006/02/10
/0000.html