Re: ofwboot.xcf problem (port-macppc/44895)

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> I don't see anything obviously wrong with ofwboot/alloc.c and also
> note that it does work in the ELF version.  We can just switch to
> libsa's alloc.c to get a working ofwboox.xcf I guess, but the puzzle
> is taunting.  If anyone has any ideas how to debug this properly,
> please come forward.

No ideas for further debugging here, I'm afraid.
Here you're the expert, not me...

However, let me suggest that if we know a workaround to make a
working ofwboot.xcf that we implement it for now, so that we get
a working ofwboot.xcf out as part of a release, and avoid the
embarrasment of having to point users to a NetBSD-5(?)-era
ofwboot.xcf to get their newly installed machines to boot,
ref. my recent experience where neither the 7.1 nor the 6.1
ofwboot.xcf turned out to work to boot a newly installed system's
GENERIC kernel from a hard drive (on a Mac Mini).

Preferably the workaround should also go into -7 and -6...

Regards,

- Håvard