Subject: Re: serious problems with netbsd-3
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/18/2005 10:39:39
Hi,
How much memory do you Julio, and you Riccardo, have in your systems?
It is interesting that all 3 of us, with different systems, have
the same problem just at different times.
cheers
bruce
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:20:41PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > Ouch. That's not good.
> >
> > To give another data point.
> >
> > I weekly grab the NetBSD-current tar files (I'm lazy) and build that
> > for my Powerbook 540 (LC040) with MKSOFTFLOAT=yes and a replaced ams.c
> > so that the mouse works correctly. In general this works ok though
> > the most recent build I have is from the end of June. The build from
> > this past weekend would be ok except I forgot to patch ams.c
> >
> > In general I find that NetBSD-current is worse than 2.0 in the sense
> > that I get pretty consistant MMU traps if I'm not running X. It seems
> > that console scrolling and my mac have some disagreement. OTOH, it
> > could be something else.
> >
> > Riccardo, is it possible for you to cross build on another system?
> > Does someone else have an 030 they can try this on?
>
> Last time I tried (can't remember exactly when, but probably was around
> May or so), NetBSD-current was broken on my Performa 630 with the
> 68LC040 chip, spitting MMU traps during boot. I built the release with
> MKSOFTFLOAT=yes.
>
> NetBSD 2.0 worked surprisingly well. (Also built by me, using
> MKSOFTFLOAT=yes obviously.)
>
> I'd blame the microprocessor if I had never got NetBSD working on that
> machine, but given that 2.0 worked fine, I'm not so sure it is its fault.
>
> --
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/
> The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/
>
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