NWS-3260

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi folks,

i am still trying to install the NETBSD OS on my NWS-3260 portable
Network Station. Tsutsui San said, that there was a porter for this
machine with FB support...

When i try to start an installation via serial console, i see is
the following output:

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NEWS> bo fh()
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot

NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot
Booting fh(0,0,0)
1072536+2128992+129556 [89+47888+37487]=0x344b6c

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.4L (INSTALL) #5: Sun Oct 31 22:44:53 JST 1999
***@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/newsmips/compile/INSTALL
total memory = 36832 KB
avail memory = 30612 KB
using 486 buffers containing 1944 KB of memory
SONY NET WORK STATION, Model NWS-3260, Machine ID #50033
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: cpu0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev.
4.0
cpu0: 32KB Instruction, 32KB Data, direct mapped cache
hb0 at mainbus0
le0 at hb0 addr 0xbff80000: address 08:00:46:00:79:31
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
mkclock0 at hb0 addr 0xbff407f8
zsc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfec0000
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
sc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfe00100
scsibus0 at sc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
panic: kernel used FPU: PC 80001c34, CR 80002400, SR 8ff04
halted.

NEWS>
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I don't know about this is real error message. If so, where can i
download
an install image (boot.fs) with FPU suppurt for NWS-3260 ?

Regards,
Jofry

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi Chris,

i also try to install from the current boot image. But the system
freeze after the second boot-strap phase...

I don't know waht goes wrong.

Please help!

Best regards,
Jofry
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Post by Jürgen Fricke
Hi folks,
i am still trying to install the NETBSD OS on my NWS-3260 portable
Network Station. Tsutsui San said, that there was a porter for this
machine with FB support...
When i try to start an installation via serial console, i see is
---
NEWS> bo fh()
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot
Booting fh(0,0,0)
1072536+2128992+129556 [89+47888+37487]=0x344b6c
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 1.4L (INSTALL) #5: Sun Oct 31 22:44:53 JST 1999

That's an old image. Have you tried the 1.6 release boot.fs found in
ftp -a ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/newsmips/
best wishes,
Chris

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi Chris,

here is the console output with from my installation try out:
--
Testing memories: done.
36864K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3260, Machine ID #50033, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:31

NEWS> bo fh()
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(***@tgm.daemon.org, Mon Sep 9 01:13:14 UTC 2002)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3788736+127656=0x3bc404
--
At this point the machine hangs :-(


I'm used that image (boot.fs) that u have suggested in your last mail.

Regards,
Jofry
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That's an old image. Have you tried the 1.6 release boot.fs found in
ftp -a ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/newsmips/
best wishes,
Chris

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi Chris,

yes, the NWS-3260 network station use a RISC FLOATING-POINT ACCELERATOR.
Do you think that this is a problem? I'm also did't find any hints that
the NWS-3260 is a supported machine.
:-(

If you know, please tell me what i have to do to port the current NetBSD
release to this cube, or tell me who can i ask to do so.

Best regards,
Jofry
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Post by Jürgen Fricke
Hi Chris,
--
Testing memories: done.
36864K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.
SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3260, Machine ID #50033, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:31

Looking at the install Doc's, I'm not sure if that machine is supported,
so I'll step back and let someone else answer this one.
Has it got a floating point unit?
best wishes,
Chris

[Izumi Tsutsui]

Post by Jürgen Fricke
I don't know about this is real error message. If so, where can i
download
an install image (boot.fs) with FPU suppurt for NWS-3260 ?

All netbsd kernels are compiled with -msoftfloat and no FPU
instructions are used in kernel. Maybe the real problem here is
a bug in the interrupt handler caused by spurious interrupts
from framebuffer.

Post by Jürgen Fricke
now after many trys i found an boot-image that rocks. But yet another
problem is that this image looks like incomplete. After the first and
second boostrap, a minimal NetBSD is running from floppy.

That 1.4L image is too old and it does not include sysinst.

Post by Jürgen Fricke
Where can i find this program compiled for running on NEWS-MIPS R3000?
And what i have to do to now for the next undocumented steps?

NetBSD 1.6 supports R3000 newsmips and it actually works fine on
my NWS-3470, but it has problem on machines which have unsupported
framebuffers. Probably there are some problem on console initialization,
but it's a bit hard to debug without a real machine..
---
Izumi Tsutsui
***@ceres.dti.ne.jp

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi Tsutsui San!

If you are interested, i can send a NWS-3260 to you. If the job is not
to complex, i can do it by myself with some tips & hints from you.

Thanx a lot for help..

Jofry
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Post by Izumi Tsutsui

Post by Jürgen Fricke
I don't know about this is real error message. If so, where can i
download
an install image (boot.fs) with FPU suppurt for NWS-3260 ?

All netbsd kernels are compiled with -msoftfloat and no FPU
instructions are used in kernel. Maybe the real problem here is
a bug in the interrupt handler caused by spurious interrupts
from framebuffer.

Post by Jürgen Fricke
now after many trys i found an boot-image that rocks. But yet another
problem is that this image looks like incomplete. After the first and
second boostrap, a minimal NetBSD is running from floppy.

That 1.4L image is too old and it does not include sysinst.

Post by Jürgen Fricke
Where can i find this program compiled for running on NEWS-MIPS R3000?
And what i have to do to now for the next undocumented steps?

NetBSD 1.6 supports R3000 newsmips and it actually works fine on
my NWS-3470, but it has problem on machines which have unsupported
framebuffers. Probably there are some problem on console initialization,
but it's a bit hard to debug without a real machine..
---
Izumi Tsutsui

[Izumi Tsutsui]

Post by Jürgen Fricke
If you are interested, i can send a NWS-3260 to you. If the job is not
to complex, i can do it by myself with some tips & hints from you.

Okay, after testing several kernels, I've found that
booting large kernels with current boot loader on serial console
might have problem. Even boot.fs in 1.6-release does not boot
on my 3470D with serial console, though it works fine on fb console..

Would you please try the next image?
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-test.fs
This image does not contain in-kernel ramdisk so it can't be used
for installation, but if this kernel shows some message after boot,
at least bootloader has some bugs (stack overflow or something).
---
Izumi Tsutsui
***@ceres.dti.ne.jp

[Jürgen Fricke]

Hi,

i used that image you give me the URL in your last message. Here
is the output below.

Hope that help.

Regards,
Jofry

--->
SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3260, Machine ID #50033, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:31

NEWS> T
Unknown command.
NEWS> bo fh()
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot

a0 0
a1 50007001
a2 823ffef4 (/boot)
a3 23f8000
a4 67696e66
a5 6f002e72
block_size = 8192
block_count = 7
entry_point = 0xa0700000
reading block: 17 33 49 65 81 97 113 done
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(***@mirage, Mon Sep 30 16:51:24 JST 2002)
HB system.
howto = 0x0
bootdev = 0x50007001
bootname =
maxmem = 0x23f8000
Booting fh(0,0,0)
trying fh(0,0,0)/netbsd...
devopen: fh(0,0,0)/netbsd
devname = fh(0,0,0), fd = 3
1765584+151148 [72592+60632]=0x1f49b8
entry = 0x80001000
ssym = 0x801d4f3c
esym = 0x801f59b8

consinit() done.
cpu_model = news3200
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.6H (GALANT) #130: Mon Sep 30 19:13:44 JST 2002
***@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/newsmips/compile/GALANT
total memory = 36832 KB
avail memory = 31720 KB
using 486 buffers containing 1944 KB of memory
SONY NET WORK STATION, Model NWS-3260, Machine ID #50033
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000A CPU (0x230) Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC
Rev. 4.0
cpu0: 32KB/4B direct-mapped Instruction cache, 64 TLB entries
cpu0: 32KB/4B direct-mapped write-through Data cache
hb0 at mainbus0
le0 at hb0 addr 0xbff80000 level 1: address 08:00:46:00:79:31
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
mkclock0 at hb0 addr 0xbff407f8
zsc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfec0000 level 1
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console i/o)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
kb0 at hb0 addr 0xbfd00000 level 2
wskbd0 at kb0 mux 1
ms0 at hb0 addr 0xbfd00004 level 2
wsmouse0 at ms0 mux 0
sc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfe00100 level 0
scsibus0 at sc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST1480, 4511> SCSI2 0/direct
fixed
sd0: 406 MB, 1476 cyl, 9 head, 62 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 832527 sectors
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
boot device: <unknown>
root device: sd0
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
no file system for sd0 (dev 0x0)
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default sd0a):
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
no file system for sd0 (dev 0x0)
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default sd0a):
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
no file system for sd0 (dev 0x0)
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default sd0a):
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
SC(t): [istatus=0x80, tstatus=0x2]
no file system for sd0 (dev 0x0)
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default sd0a):
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Post by Izumi Tsutsui

Post by Jürgen Fricke
If you are interested, i can send a NWS-3260 to you. If the job is not
to complex, i can do it by myself with some tips & hints from you.

Okay, after testing several kernels, I've found that
booting large kernels with current boot loader on serial console
might have problem. Even boot.fs in 1.6-release does not boot
on my 3470D with serial console, though it works fine on fb console..
Would you please try the next image?
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-test.fs
This image does not contain in-kernel ramdisk so it can't be used
for installation, but if this kernel shows some message after boot,
at least bootloader has some bugs (stack overflow or something).
---
Izumi Tsutsui