On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Markus Baeurle wrote:

> 
> > I'm also having difficulty getting sources from ftp.netbsd.org that
> > actually compile toa kernel that works. I'm trying to compile in the
> 
> Well you have to use a current make due to recent changes, ie. you must also
> sup the "release" bmake and compile and install that.
> I will put the binary on the ftp site so Mark can put it in the upgrades
> directory for 1.2-release.
> I'm not sure if you also have to use current versions of the include Makefiles
> in /usr/share/mk. I think it's in the "release=etc". Before I did this, I got
> an error while compiling the compat library.
> Furthermore, you have to revert the MI change of the name of the ramdisk device
> from rd to md as the arm32 port doesn't seem to use the MI version.
> In /sys/arch/arm32/arm32/conf.c you have to change back all occurences of md
> back to rd and every NMD back to NRD.

NO. The arm32 port does use the MI ramdisk the ramdisk file in arm32/dev 
is just the hooks to the MI ramdisk.

There should be no problems with the change from rd->md. However due to 
gateway problems I have not yet checked out the new code and verified the 
compile. Any problems with using md should be fixed rather than trying to 
revert the code.

> 
> Furthermore, I have to confirm that indeed a new version of csc.o is needed for
> Cumana users. I compiled another kernel and this one now crashes with a
> permission fault in kernel by kernel while trying to probe the Cumana SCSI II
> card.

Ok I'll do this. BTW. LKM's are getting closer and this should help.

Cheers,
				Mark

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