Re: NetBSD/virt68k live-image

[Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost>]

On Feb 7, 2025, at 8:40 PM, John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> As of NetBSD 11 it should at minimum be a great way to build packages quickly.
>> 
>> I?ve been able to cross-build the virt68k port on my M2 MacBook Air pretty easily and quickly, just FYI. It was the live-image support that got me excited about it. :)
> 
> It can help, but unfortunately it's not quite ready yet. We get "panic: enter: out of address space" with many packages such as erlang or php83.

This is probably something that needs the much-discussed 68K page table improvements to build, right? Otherwise even with 8KB pages 68K is still limited to 960MB address space.

That had been enough for me to build git on my HP 9000-433s, but I can imagine there are packages that need 1GB or more address space to build these days, probably including LLVM et al.

  -- Chris