Subject: Re: NetBSD on RiscPC Kinetic Card
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Dave Daniels <Davedan@arcade.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/01/2000 11:13:37
  RE> Does the NetBSD bootstrap program (the bit that runs on RISC
  RE> OS) even pass the additional memory blocks to the kernel
  RE> bootstrap routine?  One easy way to tell would be to see how
  RE> much memory 'top' reports. 
 
The extra memory is available for use. 'cat /kern/physmem'
returned 23552 pages, which is what this machine has now.
Having said that the Kinetic Card worked without any problems I
have just had a complete lockup of NetBSD (reset button job) and
then a crash that left me at the 'db>' prompt, both when running a
program that contained a large (8,000,000 element) array. Maybe
things are not quite as good as I thought.
  
Dave Daniels
 
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