Subject: Re: NetBSD/sun4m on Classic
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
From: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/07/1996 08:15:31
On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Valtteri Vuorikoski wrote:
> Despite the README, NetBSD/sun4m does not appear to work on the SparcClassic.
> I'm using the SunOS 4.1.3_u1 boot.sun4m, booting off a Mac IIsi running NetBSD,
> and it has a serial console. The kernel dies as follows:
>
> panic: bootstrap: could not get interrupt node from prom
> Stopped at 0xf80cb164: jmpl [%o7 + 0x8], %g0
Others have seen this on SS5 machines as well. Right now, the code looks
for the PROM interrupt node at /obio/interrupt, but it may not be there
on some machines, or the PROM revision these machines has does not parse
full PROM pathnames. I'll build a new kernel sometime today that searches
the PROM rather than hardcoding the node pathname; this should fix this
problem.
--Aaron