Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines

I booted the image on my MTX604-010A board.  The output can
be found at:

     http://mylinuxisp.com/~jdbaker/misc/prep-resi
d-boot-MTX604-010A.log

It hung after a timeout probing the SCSI host adapter
(esiop).

I'm looking forward to being able to run NetBSD on this
machine
(currently has an ancient Debian-potato install on the local
disks).

Hope this helps.

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On 17-Jul-2006 John D. Baker wrote:
> It hung after a timeout probing the SCSI host adapter
(esiop).
> 
> I'm looking forward to being able to run NetBSD on
this machine
> (currently has an ancient Debian-potato install on the
local disks).
> 
> Hope this helps.

This does help immensly.  I'm fairly confident that this
machine can run
NetBSD/prep.  I'm currently working on another machine that
looks very similar
to this one, so I imagine that once that one is working,
yours will work too. 
I may send you a kernel in the future to boot on it to test.

If it's possible to get me remote access to the machine,
that would speed
things up alot.

One last question.. you say its an "MTX604-010A"
 What kind of machine is it? 
A motorola VME board?

---
Tim Rightnour <rootgarbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
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On 17 Jul 2006, at 01:55, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> On 17-Jul-2006 John D. Baker wrote:
>> I'm looking forward to being able to run NetBSD on
this machine
>> (currently has an ancient Debian-potato install on
the local disks).
>
> One last question.. you say its an
"MTX604-010A"  What kind of machine 
> is it?
> A motorola VME board?

The MTX series are ATX form-factor boards.  MTX have 3 PCI
slots  and
the MTX+ have 7 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot.  My MTX is model
variant
604-010A which has dual 300MHz MPC604e CPUs.  Other
variations had
single MPC603 or MPC604 CPUs.

So, it's otherwise like an MVME4600--just without the
Universe chip or
VME connectors and it mounts in an ATX-PC case (except the
rear panel,
which isn't laid out like any PC cover panels).

John D. Baker                            NetBSD    
Darwin/MacOS X
http://mylinuxisp(dot)com/(tild
e)jdbaker/     OpenBSD            FreeBSD
BSD.  It just sits there and _works_.
GPG fingerprint = D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4  BD99 9572 8F23
E4AD 1645

What's the status of NetBSD/prep on Motorola PowerPlus
machines like
the MTX60{3,4}, MVME{2{3,4,6,7},{3,4}6}00 systems?

I finally got around to trying to boot the netbsd-4 snapshot
from
200610010000Z on my MTX604-010A.  It got as far as probing
the SCSI
host adapter (esiop) and hung following a device timeout.  I
think this
was the same behavior as when I tried your self-contained
boot.fs back
in July.

What have been your results?

(As a related note, Debian/woody (3.0r3) linux (2.2.20) has
the same
problem.  Back in the day, kernels after 2.2.13 would only
boot uni-
processor, smp kernels would hang on the SCSI controller. 
Now,
everything hangs there.  I guess no-one's been testing on
Motorola
boards.)

Thanks.


John D. Baker                            NetBSD    
Darwin/MacOS X
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e)jdbaker/     OpenBSD            FreeBSD
BSD.  It just sits there and _works_.
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E4AD 1645

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:53:44 -0500
John D. Baker <jdbakermylinuxisp.com> wrote:

> It got as far as probing the SCSI
> host adapter (esiop) and hung following a device
timeout.
This sounds like an interrupt delivery problem at first
sight.
Maybe you can compile a custom kernel without esiop(4)?
-- 


tschüß,
       Jochen

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On 12-Oct-2006 John D. Baker wrote:
> What have been your results?

My results have been that I can't seem to find any RAM that
will make the thing
run.  

So along those viens, contact me off list if it's a
possibility to get some
remote serial-console time on this box of yours to get it up
and running.

---
Tim Rightnour <rootgarbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
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