Hi, I booted install-sparc64-minimal-20241014T093331Z.iso on a sun blade 2500 (red) and I tried to dump the option rom of a video card: root@livecd ~ # lspci 0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet 0001:00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Broadcom / LSI 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01) 0001:00:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Broadcom / LSI 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01) 0002:00:03.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller (rev 50) 0002:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments PCI2250 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 02) 0002:00:06.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0002:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] 0002:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ULi Electronics Inc. M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 0002:00:0a.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0002:00:0b.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0002:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0002:01:08.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) 0002:01:08.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) 0002:01:08.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04) 0002:01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 0003:00:02.0 Display controller: 3DLabs Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator (rev 01) 0003:00:02.1 Display controller: 3DLabs Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator (rev 01) root@livecd ~ # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom root@livecd ~ # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom of=xvr.rom bs=64k count=1 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 8192 bytes (8.2 kB, 8.0 KiB) copied, 0.0004965 s, 16.5 MB/s ### This ^ one kinda works, it copies only the first 8k ### These ones will hang/crash the kernel root@livecd ~ # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom of=xvr.rom root@livecd ~ # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom of=xvr.rom bs=512 count=128 root@livecd ~ # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom of=xvr.rom bs=1024 count=64 root@livecd ~ # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0003\:00\:02.0/rom of=xvr.rom bs=4096 count=16 I used the same way to dump option roms on x86_64 with no issues.
Please provide emerge --info.
There is no emerge on the live cd. Welcome to the Gentoo Linux Minimal Installation CD! [..] Thank you for using Gentoo Linux! root@livecd ~ # emerge --info -bash: emerge: command not found root@livecd ~ # uname -a Linux livecd 6.6.47-gentoo-sparc64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 16:56:57 UTC 2024 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno) GNU/Linux root@livecd ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno) fpu : UltraSparc IIIi integrated FPU pmu : ultra3i prom : OBP 4.9.7 2004/05/27 07:31 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 cpucaps : flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,ultra3,mul32,div32,v8plus,vis,vis2 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000004c4b4000 MMU Type : Cheetah+ MMU PGSZs : 8K,64K,512K,4MB State: CPU0: online
