[Asterisk-Dev] UltraSparc hardware, Linux and X100P REVISITED

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

Allot of asterisk development seems to be under gentoo, and at the 
time I did that porting work I was actually running debian. I have 
been thinking about switching my UltraSparc to gentoo as well since I 
love it on the server I installed it on here in my R&D network/lab; I 
guess I have a valid reason to do that now.

In my experience the Kernel modules and zaptel do not like to play 
nice with anything non-i86 compatible. I was acutely surprised you 
even got it to load, but then again its been some time since I last 
looked into it so I am sure it has improved. The PCI drivers for 
linux however are much older and much more stable then zaptel is, so 
I am inclined to believe that the issues you experienced stem from  
issues in zaptel itself. If you could work with it for a day or two 
and document the bugs/issues you have, it may help future development 
or provide insight.

Zaptel was actually the one thing I didn't touch when I was working 
on Asterisk and the lib it required to get it compiled and working on 
my UltraSparc, so I have no doubt it still needs to be ported/looked 
into still. I would file a official bug report with both the asterisk 
bug tracker and the gentoo bug tracker to get the ball rolling myself 
as well.

Its nice to see my efforts are at least helping others at the very  
least, especially with all the hate mail I got for helping the open 
source community and porting it to UltraSparc in the first place, 
LOL.

 - D


On 21 Feb 2005 at 11:03, Robert Burcham wrote:

> Please forgive the crosspost from asterisk-users... I
> only recently realized that this list was the proper
> place to start this thread, after discovering dking's
> thread of last September.
> 
> I was studying the asterisk-users list archives
> to learn if anyone has had success with an X100P on a
> sparc. I noticed some postings on the subject.  I am
> wondering if anyone has learned anything new?
> 
> I have an Ultra-60 running Gentoo with 2.6.10 and
> udev. I built * 1.0.5 and have been enjoying
> various SIP configurations, with 2 sipura phones and 2
> UIP200 phones in my home, bridging in FWD and now
> Voiptalk too.
> 
> I bought 2 X100P clones via ebay, and put one in my
> U60. I can see it with lspci:
> 
> 0001:00:02.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet
> Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface
> 
> I successfully built zaptel, and can modprobe zaptel
> and wcfxo:
> 
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> wcfxo                  14680  0
> zaptel                195424  1 wcfxo
> crc_ccitt               2752  1 zaptel
> 
> However I can't ztcfg with any success:
> 
> # ztcfg -v
> 
> Zaptel Configuration
> ======================
> 
> 
> 1 channels configured.
> 
> ZT_CHANCONFIG failed on channel 1: Invalid argument
> (22)
> Did you forget that FXS interfaces are configured with
> FXO signalling and that FXO interfaces use FXS
> signalling?
> 
> 
> In fact dmesg never shows wcfxo completely setting
> up the card:
> 
> # dmesg
> <snip>
> Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
> wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
> Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone
> PCI Target abort
> PCI Target abort
> PCI Target abort
> 
> I have to think that the PCI driver does not get along
> with the wcfxo driver for the X100P clone. Also,
> strange things happen while the driver is loaded
> too... consoles dropping, etc.
> 
> Some other system details:
> 
> # emerge info
> Portage 2.0.51-r15
> (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5,
> glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 sparc64)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 sparc64 sun4u
> Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
> Python:             
> dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1
> [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  7 2005, 13:51:33)]
> ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
> dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
> sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6,
> 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
> virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.4.23
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
> AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
> CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
> /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
> /var/qmail/control"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo
> /etc/env.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks
> sandbox"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="sparc apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt
> dlloader encode esd f77 fam fbcon font-server
> foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gtk2 guile imap
> imlib java jpeg junit libwww mad mcal mikmod motif
> mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib
> perl png postgres python readline sdl slang spell ssl
> tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
> xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
> Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL,
> LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> 
> 
> As for pure SIP related functions, * 1.0.5 on sparc
> has performed very well, with all functions (moh, vm,
> xfer, call park, etc) working admirably.
> 
> Has anyone been able to get any farther with zaptel on
> an ultrasparc?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
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