Subject: misc/33544: helpful advice for advice in 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <woods@becoming.weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/24/2006 15:45:00
>Number: 33544
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: helpful advice for advice in 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 24 15:45:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Greg A. Woods
>Release: NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
>Organization:
Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
the advice in the 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file about machines with more than
2GB of memory is missing helpful and necessary advice that will allow
a working kernel to be made.
>How-To-Repeat:
re-build a kernel without following this additional advice and watch
it reboot the machine before it starts
>Fix:
Index: LAST_MINUTE
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/src/doc/LAST_MINUTE,v
retrieving revision 1.2.4.2
diff -u -r1.2.4.2 LAST_MINUTE
--- LAST_MINUTE 18 Dec 2005 14:00:30 -0000 1.2.4.2
+++ LAST_MINUTE 24 May 2006 14:35:53 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
options KERNBASE_LOCORE="0x80000000"
makeoptions TEXTADDR="0x80100000"
+ Be sure you "make clean" in your kernel build directory after
+ adding these lines!
+
This will increase the kernel virtual space to 2 GB, but this
has the drawback that the application virtual space is
decreased from 3 GB to 2 GB (since the 32-bit address space