Subject: some good news
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/08/1995 01:09:39
David Jones figured out why the Sun3/260 was stopping with a
Watchdog Reset!
which turned out to be stack overflow from recursive faults.
The cause of recursion and the original fault were both caused
by calling routines before they were ready for use. It's Fixed!
Many thanks to David - He had to work quite hard to find that!
Meanwhile, I finally got the X11R6 server working on our drivers.
I learned that even though X11R5 worked OK, R6 uses the fb_size
reported by the device for its mmap() size, so that size must be
correct. I fixed the cg4 driver and then got the cg2 working
just for kicks. The X servers and new kernel are available:
ftp.netbsd.org (anonymous)
cd /pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3
binary
get x11r6servers.tar.gz
get netbsd-gen.gz
get zupdate.gz
Oh yeah, I needed gdb to get the X server going, so I put that
in the latest zupdate.gz file. Lastly, I've updated most of
the snapshot binaries (again from the amiga port) so it will
be able to compile itself (after updating the includes).
Have fun!
Gordon