Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Aside from the case materials, I happen to know from out-of-band discussions
> with Install QA that there is currently an open bug where the text installer
> cannot be used on SPARC systems displaying on a local console device driven
> by a frame buffer without coherent console support. It's not clear where the
> bug lies (presumably something in the ncurses implementation is relying on
> something that is only supported by the in-kernel coherent console terminal
> emulator and not the OBP terminal emulator) - but is coherent console support
> going to be a dependency of this project or is that bug going to be root
> caused
> and fixed in either the installer or ncurses?
Offline discussion with some of the team members who investigated this issue
has led us to the conclusion that the initial diagnosis was wrong, and there
is no dependency on coherent console that needs to be called out in the case
materials.
There is a bug with display on the XVR-2500 card, which is now being tracked
as:
6961487 Caiman text installer unusable on XVR-2500 console
but since the text installer is operable on other SPARC graphics cards without
coherent console support (I believe the test system used Expert3D lite graphics,
for which the driver is not packaged in IPS, so coherent console mode cannot be
used), it's not an undeclared dependency, just a bug, so does not need to be
covered in this ARC review.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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