Subject: Re: Memory problems on 5000/200
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/12/2000 14:54:59
Chris Tribo wrote:
> > > Thanks for the info. Do you or anyone else know if this will work
> > > under Ultrix Compatibility Mode? All I know of it were from the kernel
> > > config file. Not that it really matters since I'll be installing Ultrix
> > > anyway, just curious if the testing programs are known to work under
> > > NetBSD.
> >
> > Nope :-( Is looks for the physmem, maxmem and sminfo info symbols
> > in /vmunix then reads those values out of /dev/kmem. However, it
> > shouldn't be too hard to write one from the description...
>
> Would hacking the Ultrix source be too terribly difficult
> then?
One problem - what Ultrix source? :-) I've only got the binaries that are
installed in /usr/field.
The binary only knows how look up the symbols from an Ultrix kernel. I guess
I could try to put a ECOFF kernel in /vmunix and see what happens, but I'm
not sure if the pain is worth it...
Simon.