experiences with 3.0_BETA

[Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322%artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz@localhost>]

Hello,

I just booted the 3.0_BETA kernel from the daily autobuilds and it works!
Thanks a lot for thit work.

I encountered several issues, however:

1/ most serious: Xfree86 crashed with signal 11 when switching desktops in
windowmaker. This never happened with my 2.0_BETA/i386 kernel. The whole
userland is 2.0_BETA, but this shouldn't matter, no? What could be done to
debug this?

2/ some utilities print something like "ksyms: device not configured" when
booting, and vmstat doesn't work. I found the answer in the post
Message-ID: <20050409182722.GA10451%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
- it is necessary to use a patched Xen to load the symbol table for domain
0, which one can get by ftp from pub/NetBSD/arch/xen/xen20.
Could this information be added to the Xen HOWTO
(http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html#netbsd-domain0), please?  For
example: "Until a version of Xen which supports loading the symbol table
is released, it is better to use a patched version available from
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/xen/xen20/xen205-loadksym.gz
Otherwise, commands like netstat or vmstat will probably fail and symbolic
kernel debugging in ddb will be impossible."

3/ This is probably harmless, but the SCSI bus scanning is very verbose:
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
sd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST318437LW, 0102> disk fixed
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
ahc0:A:2:0: Ensuring async
(ahc0:A:2:0): Sending WDTR 0
(ahc0:A:2:0): Received WDTR 0 filtered to 0
sd0: 17547 MB, 29851 cyl, 2 head, 601 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35937500 sectors

Bye     Pavel