Re: refine of the GSOC project

[Charles Cui <charles.cui1984%gmail.com@localhost>]

some updates of building kernel.
I spend some time these days to investigate the kernel compiling
problem that I found earlier.
I start from netbsd 7.0 -stable, and build a netbsd-current.
After building tools, kernel modules, I found there are
two folders, one is  /usr/<buildname>/tooldir.NetBSD-7.0_STABLE-i386,
the other is /usr/<buildname>/tooldir.NetBSD-7.99.29-i386,
after installing new kernels, when trying to install userland, it will
report some binary tools cannot be found in the second folder, but
these tools exist in the first folder. I copied the required tools
over to the second folder, it install userland successfully.
I guess in the new kernel, building tools again can also solve the problem.

Although the kernel compiling problem is solved, I observed a kernel
issue of netbsd-current.
I used i386 arch on virtualbox, sometimes, it will tell me power
button is pressed and the system is shutdown
(I have attached the detailed info below). However, I never press the
button. I experience this problem
at least 10 times. To verify it is a netbsd-current problem, I
installed a netbsd 7.0-stable kernel,
and never experience this problem again.  So, I am wondering what's
the kernel changes that cause this issue?
This is not quite related to my projects, but definitely is good to
let the community know.

*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@ ***

System going down IMMEDIATELY



power button pressed

2016-05-09 11:20 GMT-07:00 Charles Cui <charles.cui1984%gmail.com@localhost>:
> Got it, I can start to collecting it and post you the information once I have.
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> Thanks, Charles
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> 2016-05-09 10:07 GMT-07:00 Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>:
>> On May 9, 10:03am, charles.cui1984%gmail.com@localhost (Charles Cui) wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: refine of the GSOC project
>>
>> | Sure, I can do it.
>> | To make it clear, besides this list, you want another list that failed
>> | the test because of it is not used in a standard way or compiler
>> | settings?
>>
>> Well, the simple ones (the ones that use variable names that are defined
>> constants in the NetBSD headers) you can just fix.
>> The ones that need extra libraries and compiler settings should be mostly
>> covered by the patch that I sent you, but there could be more.
>> Finally there are ones that are slightly more complicated to fix, and we
>> should just say what's wrong with them in the table...
>>
>> christos