On 10/24/05, Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> wrote:
>
> Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net> writes:
>
> > Interesting. All I know is the thing was rock-stable (except for the cr=
ashes
> > when building certain things that expected some POSIX somethingorother =
to be
> > there that wasn't) under 1.6, but building anything under 2.0 is a tota=
l
> > gamble as far as stability goes. Is there any way to get info about whi=
ch
> > revision of Dreamcast I have and whether or not it makes that much of a
> > difference?
>
> The board revision is printed on the component side of the main board,
> underneath the Maple connector sub-board.  It's not like we have any
> release notes from SEGA describing the differences though, so it's
> only useful for comparison.
>
> VA0 is the oldest released version, I think.

So much for being stable, mine crashed when attempting to build p0f
from pkgsrc. But I built tcsh from pkgsrc yesterday just fine. Ugh.

I've got 2 of these things now, my first one has a broken gdrom drive.
I'll open that one first and see what it is when I get time.

Andy