Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-17 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/17/2018 1:52 PM, Brett Lymn wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: Yes, but what's the prompt BEFORE that (u-boot>)? And, where do I find the capabilities, there, documented? As someone else mentioned that is the Service Processor boot, it is a cut down

Re: apm command netbsd 8

2018-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:06:57PM -0600, Michael Jensen wrote: > > asbatt is a X11 battery monitir. I'm aware of envstat the old apm was much > simpler. I've been working writing a replacement X battery monitor that > uses the far more convoluted acpi api. APM wasmuch easier to deal with as >

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > > Yes, but what's the prompt BEFORE that (u-boot>)? And, where do I > find the capabilities, there, documented? > As someone else mentioned that is the Service Processor boot, it is a cut down linux image, IIRC running on powerpc.

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-17 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 3:47 PM, David Young wrote: I added a line to /etc/fstab, swap /mfs tmpfs rw,-s8M 0 0 If memory is limited, doesn't that make creating a MFS swap just useless overhead? I.e., if you need to page to swap, you're just consuming memory set aside FOR swap instead of "main

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-17 Thread Sad Clouds
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:22:19 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: > So, it seems like there are a boat load of prompts -- "u-boot>", > "->", "ok" ... And, nothing that seems to summarize ALL of > the pertinent environments in which you can be interacting with > the box. You're getting confused between

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-17 Thread Palle Lyckegaard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Julien Savard wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:28:07 From: Julien Savard To: netbsd-embed...@gmx.com Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Netra T5220 Unfortunately, as of 5 Nov 2017 (  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2017/11/05/msg002700.html ) and