NetBSD Problem Report #33473

From bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de  Fri May 12 23:26:09 2006
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 01:25:42 +0200
From: bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Sender: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>
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Subject: SYS_UBOOT messes up local console on 425s with Hires Catseye framebuffer
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>Number:         33473
>Category:       port-hp300
>Synopsis:       SYS_UBOOT messes up local console on 425s with Hires Catseye framebuffer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-hp300-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 12 23:30:00 +0000 2006
>Closed-Date:    Sat May 13 04:40:48 +0000 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sat May 13 04:40:48 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Bernd Sieker
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0_STABLE 2006-05-12
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD adder.home.loc 3.0_STABLE NetBSD 3.0_STABLE (GENERIC) hp300
Architecture: m68k
Machine: hp300
>Description:

When the machine PROM (v3.0, April 1991) loads SYS_UBOOT, either
via network (rbootd) or from the local hard disk, it immediately
messes up the local console display, so that nothing is readable
any more. Only weird characters are shown at seemingly random
locations, and completely inverted (white) lines are shown at
locations where (presumably) the boot messages are displayed.

This happens on a HP 9000 425s with CatsEye HiRes framebuffer.

I cannot test with other machines or framebuffers at the moment.

This problem also appears with the SYS_UBOOT from the 3.0 release.

The SYS_UBOOT from the 2.1 release works fine, and can also load
the 3.0 kernel without a problem.

>How-To-Repeat:
Have the PROM on a 400 series HP9000 with hires framebuffer load
and start SYS_UBOOT.

>Fix:
Workaround: Use the SYS_UBOOT from the 2.1 release.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-hp300/33473: SYS_UBOOT messes up local console on 425s with Hires Catseye framebuffer
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 01:41:10 +0200

 Apparently I was confused about which SYS_UBOOT version I was
 actually using.  It seems now that the version in 3.0_STABLE works
 fine, in a snapshot built from sources from 2006-05-12.

 I can only reproduce the problem with the SYS_UBOOT from the 3.0
 release.

 -- 
 Bernd Sieker

 NetBSD - Serious Other, or Serious Operating system. Your choice.
 		-- Julian Assange

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: tsutsui@netbsd.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:40:48 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Already fixed and pulled up to netbsd-3 and netbsd-3-0:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/01/28/0022.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/01/30/0006.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/01/30/0007.html
I'll note this bug and workaround in NetBSD/hp300 page. Thanks.


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