Re: NEC MobilePro 780/790 Round 2

[Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang%flygoat.com@localhost>]

> 2022年12月24日 22:20，Michael <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost> 写道：
> 
> Jiaxun-
> 
> So great to hear from you and thank you for the offer of help!
> 
> I do have a serial port available. I seem to recall that I tried to
> enable backtracing
> the last go around but never got any output after a crash. I guess the
> serial console
> might be a way around that?

Hmm, serial console should drop into ddb after a crash if it’s configured properly as:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/hpcmips/howto-use/#index17h2

If not then the crash point might be too early.

> 
> Here are some previous discussions by various people trying to get
> NetBSD to work with
> various degrees of success on different versions:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mips/2021/04/12/msg001011.html
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mips/2021/09/18/msg001139.html
> https://www.reddit.com/r/OldHandhelds/comments/yd7dco/nec_mobilepro_790_running_netbsd/
> https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20759&start=1

Thanks for the info. For the Ramdisk size issue my suggestion is avoiding sysinst and just
build a rootfs manually. Given the size of physical RAM running sysinst seems to be
a little bit cruel…

I’ll try to setup my Sigmarion ASAP and see if I can reproduce any of those problems.

> 
> Thank you,
> Michael

Thanks
Jiaxun