Wow!  OK, let's do a sanity check here.  I'm using cross/mipsel-netbsd version
1.3.0.0 and binutils version 2.9.1.1.  My build system is a Sun 4/110 running
NetBSD.  I'm building NetBSD-current as of a couple weeks ago, reporting
version 1.5R.  What version of build tools are you using at this moment?
And you're saying that NetBSD-1.5 release works fine for you?  Can you
add my patches to 1.5 release as well as -current and compare if either works
on your Magnum?  Can you also do me a favor and check your cvs directory
and tell me which files changed between March and July of 2000 that pertain
to port-arc, when you noticed it started working for you?
This would be a major help!

Cheers,
-Mark

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:46:38PM -0800, bob meader wrote:
> 
> I am sorry for delay in writing this but if check in the mail archivesaround
> Apr-june 2000 I HAD EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM
> YOU HAVE NOW! (ie kernel forks init but printf added to main
> don't display init seems to be sleeping etc. ONLY it was for NEC RISCserver
> 2200 )  If look later around July-August you will see some messages to the effect
> 
> that I got the kernel to work...
> 
> Now you're going to ask Bob  what did you do to make it work ? Well
> the answer is I checkout out a later kernel release ( ie 3/30/2000
> to July xx) ,added one patch (wrong calendar chip address)
> and finally updated my compiler/binutil cross-build tools...
> The changes to kernel source for arc during that period
> were to buss-dma... but to this day I don't know if it was
> just my build tools giving me grief or kernel source code modifications.
> 
> I was thinking about moving in your magnum changes
> to the kernel source I use (1.5 Release not 1.5 current) building
> it my mips arc machine to see what hapens...
> 
> Oh RiscServer use L2 cache (2 megs) but dcache line
> size is 32 (not 16 like magnum).
>