Nekonomicon - OpenBSD/sgi

bri3d
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Wrote the following at Oct. 10, 2009, 10:30 a.m...

miod wrote:

bri3d wrote:

Does NUMA work?

Multiple-o350 configurations could not be tested for lack of hardware (the only multiple-node system which has been tested, to the best of my knowledge, is a dual Origin 200 system).

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I'll pull some snapshots later on and test, as I happen to own two dual-R16k O350s NUMAlinked.
Let me know if there's an IRC somewhere I should join to collaborate with you...

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miod
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Wrote the following at Oct. 11, 2009, 11:48 a.m...

bri3d wrote:

I'll pull some snapshots later on and test, as I happen to own two dual-R16k O350s NUMAlinked.

That would be terrific!

bri3d wrote:

Let me know if there's an IRC somewhere I should join to collaborate with you...

I'm afraid I am seldom seen on IRC those years, but I try to answer all my mail without too much delay...

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dukzcry
Who joined June 14, 2009, 10:53 p.m.
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Wrote the following at July 19, 2010, 10:48 p.m...

miod :
Oh wow! Miod Vallat is here, OpenBSD commiter and kernel team man ftw! That's a real surprise, greetings!

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nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Aug. 29, 2010, 1:12 a.m...

what's new in the current snapshot for IP30 (x11...?)
where can we read news for mips status?

miod
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 1:44 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Sept. 30, 2010, 4:20 a.m...

nuts wrote:

what's new in the current snapshot for IP30 (x11...?)

Nothing special. There hasn't been any Octane-specific development recently.

nuts wrote:

where can we read news for mips status?

I irregularily post status reports or new hardware support to the sgi@ mailinglist.

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Valery
Who joined July 27, 2008, 10:48 p.m.
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Wrote the following at Oct. 26, 2010, 1:13 p.m...

Any plans for porting drivers for X11 from NetBSD for O2? + Maximum that is now in the X11 on OpenBSD is an 8-bit color ... = (

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miod
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Wrote the following at Nov. 19, 2010, 12:36 p.m...

Valery wrote:

Any plans for porting drivers for X11 from NetBSD for O2? + Maximum that is now in the X11 on OpenBSD is an 8-bit color ... = (

Eventually, yes. But probably not soon, since both Joel Sing and I are busy with other stuff.

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mattst88
Who joined July 13, 2005, 8:54 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Nov. 19, 2010, 3:14 p.m...

Is 'porting' really involved? They can't just be compiled on OpenBSD?

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miod
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Wrote the following at Nov. 20, 2010, 2:06 a.m...

mattst88 wrote:

Is 'porting' really involved? They can't just be compiled on OpenBSD?

There are probably a few lines of code to add to the kernel driver to allow the X11 userland driver to mmap the various control registers it needs to play with. Nothing particularly difficult.

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Valery
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Wrote the following at Nov. 21, 2010, 6:22 p.m...

miod wrote:

Valery wrote:

Any plans for porting drivers for X11 from NetBSD for O2? + Maximum that is now in the X11 on OpenBSD is an 8-bit color ... = (

Eventually, yes. But probably not soon, since both Joel Sing and I are busy with other stuff.

We can get it in OpenBSD 4.9? Or no chance?

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nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Nov. 21, 2010, 11:02 p.m...

no chance.
If you check on the ftp in snapshots releases you can see it's not 4.9 yet

ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sgi/

miod
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Wrote the following at Nov. 22, 2010, 12:26 p.m...

Valery wrote:

We can get it in OpenBSD 4.9? Or no chance?

I'm afraid I don't know the future. 4.9 is months ahead...

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marmotta
Who joined April 16, 2005, 12:18 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Dec. 30, 2010, 6:06 p.m...

Sorry for my english... but openbsd4.8 not have a driver for run X11 with Octane (impact)? I have tryed but startx not work....

In the 4.9?

nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Dec. 31, 2010, 12:14 a.m...

not yet.
I don't know if miod has started to make a driver in the actual snapshot.

miod
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 1:44 a.m.
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Wrote the following at April 25, 2012, 1:34 p.m...

Nihilus wrote:

When I spoke to Art Grabowski years ago, picking up my Indy from him, he told me someone in .se had code for the Indy it in his attic... They are kinda lazy with pushing the code to the trunk the OBSD'ers ;-)

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For what it's worth, recent OpenBSD/sgi snapshots (attempt to) run on the Indy (as well as R4k Indigo and R4k Indigo2), so the IP22 work happened eventually :mrgreen:

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noth
Who joined Sept. 11, 2006, 12:57 p.m.
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Wrote the following at Nov. 5, 2012, 9:18 a.m...

OpenBSD/sgi 5.2 is now out, with IP28 support! Thanks a lot miod, time to dig out the Indigo2 IMPACT R10k and give it a spin.

mia
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Wrote the following at Nov. 5, 2012, 9:41 a.m...

I had random crashes on my O2 with 5.1 during makeworld, I'll probably give this one a shot. I think it might have been a bug Miod was working on earlier this year. He's done so much for this port, I should have at least provided him with a trace. I'll test and do that.

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miod
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Wrote the following at Nov. 9, 2012, 1:38 p.m...

mia wrote:

I had random crashes on my O2 with 5.1 during makeworld, I'll probably give this one a shot. I think it might have been a bug Miod was working on earlier this year. He's done so much for this port, I should have at least provided him with a trace. I'll test and do that.

You're the guy with an RM7000 O2, aren't you?

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mia
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Wrote the following at Nov. 9, 2012, 1:39 p.m...

miod wrote:

mia wrote:

I had random crashes on my O2 with 5.1 during makeworld, I'll probably give this one a shot. I think it might have been a bug Miod was working on earlier this year. He's done so much for this port, I should have at least provided him with a trace. I'll test and do that.

You're the guy with an RM7000 O2, aren't you?

Yes, is this a hardware bug?

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miod
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Wrote the following at Nov. 9, 2012, 2:17 p.m...

mia wrote:

miod wrote:

You're the guy with an RM7000 O2, aren't you?

Yes, is this a hardware bug?

Hah! I wish it was. (Hmm, come to think of it, and given how much hair I have lost due to hardware bugs, I might not wish that much :mrgreen:

)

No, there are issues on RM7000 since a few releases, which I'm afraid I couldn't figure out the cause of. But this definitely smells like a (subtle) software problem. In the meantime, running 16KB page size kernels (adding an "option PAGE_SHIFT=14" line to GENERIC-IP32) appears to work fine.

I still hope to eventually realize what is wrong and fix the bug... but I've been quite blind to the issue so far.

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