Flag day for bootloader + kernel?

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

Hi,

it appears that there has crept in a "flag day" on the sgimips
port.  The thing is this:

 o A -current kernel requires a newer bootloader than the one
   which came with 4.0
 o The new bootloader from -current cannot boot a 4.0 kernel (but
   a -current kernel is fine)

When I tried to boot a 4.0 kernel with the new bootloader (trying
to be "careful" when upgrading), what I got was what is shown
below.

It would perhaps have been natural to expect to have this
information on the sgimips port web page?


>> boot

NetBSD/sgimips 4.99.69 Bootstrap, Revision 1.4
(he%viola.urc.uninett.no@localhost, Thu Jul 17 11:54:04 CEST 2008)

devopen: scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file /netbsd
3314416+192508 [187408+179406]=0x3b1f98
Found bootinfo at 0x8800e7d4

Exception: <vector=UTLB Miss>
Status register: 0x20000002<CU1,IPL=8,MODE=KERNEL,EXL>
Cause register: 0x10008008<CE=1,IP8,EXC=RMISS>
Exception PC: 0x882e7768, Exception RA: 0x882e7e9c
exception, bad address: 0x10
Local I/O interrupt register 2: 0xc0 <SLOT0,SLOT1>
  Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0xa8740e48, &_regs 0xa8741048):
  arg: a8740000 6f5 0 1
  tmp: a8740000 8800e7d4 fffff000 20011121 883b9000 887fe53c 7 9fc5c2b4
  sve: a8740000 3 400000 8000000 16 3f80 0 10000000
  t8 a8740000 t9 28 at 7df314b4 v0 470000 v1 473268 k1 8800e7d4
  gp a8740000 fp 0 sp 0 ra 7df8c980

PANIC: Unexpected exception

[Press reset or ENTER to restart.]


Regards,

- Håvard