Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos

[Jorge Acereda Maciá <jacereda%gmail.com@localhost>]

Simon Burge wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= wrote:
>
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> > Simon Burge wrote:
> >
> >
> > > No ideas offhand.  That's a page size which may or may not mean
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > I wonder what happens if you do something like:
> > >
> > >         dd if=/netbsd of=/tmp/foo bs=4k count=1 seek=1
> > >
> > > do you zeros or real data at 0x1000 in /tmp/foo ?  Still, I'm not
> > > sure what that proves either if it works or not...
> >
> > Interesting. I got two identical chunks at 0x0000 and 0x1000 which are 
> > in fact the data at 0x0000 in /netbsd.
> >
> > Want to hear something really annoying? if I use dd if=/netbsd 
> > of=/tmp/foo instead of cp, I get an exact replica.
>
>
> I think cp uses mmap instead of read, but still uses writes normally?
>
> Maybe try regress/sys/uvm/mmap ?

I have some more information. I compiled a kernel with MFS support and 
the patches that made regress/sys/uvm/mmap pass. cp from NFS to the 
ramdisk (or from ramdisk->ramdisk) works correctly. But NFS->NFS and 
ramdisk->NFS are still broken.

OTOH, copying NFS->NFS using:

cat /bin/ls > /tmp/ls

works correctly.

Interestingly, copying NFS->NFS a 8192 bytes file (or any multiple of 
4096) works fine, while copying a 8191 bytes file yields 4096 bytes of 
correct data plus 4095 zeros.

Any idea?

TIA,
  Jorge Acereda