Re: Status of the next68k port (SCSI controller/disk)?

[Michael Engel <engel%multicores.org@localhost>]

Hi,

> On 25. Jan 2023, at 19:24, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> 
>> Well, my NeXTstation now has some trouble, maybe around
>> the lithium battery for BIOS and powerup.  I've ordered
>> a new one and I'll commit fixes once after test them again.
>> https://industrial.panasonic.com/products/pt/lithium-batteries/models/BR-2%25252F3A
> 
> Today I received a new battery and replaced it,
> then my NeXT works again. :-)
> (it complained "System test failed" and "Error code 65" first
> but it dissappeared, maybe bad NVM values?)

Bad NVM contents would be my guess, too. 

> It turns out that the Ethernet issue on NetBSD/next68k 9.3
> is not a driver problem but looks due to lack of entropy issue
> around the network layer.
> 
> Reverting the following pullup commit (especially "ip_do_randomid = 0")
> makes NetBSD/next68k 9.3 kernel boots on NFS root.
> https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/de6d2db7d06c8e3c0e35995722ebaa259b78c2ba#diff-8a50bc8e5e7080ceff91c3ac7e159fc046834f0dc2096a060a79bb122d38e717L171

That's interesting and it sounds like it was quite difficult to
discover - thanks again for your work! I didn't have much
time for testing recently, but will try to check this out, too.

What would also be interesting is the state of NetBSD on 
Turbo NeXT machines, I expect this to be more experimental...

Best,
    Michael