Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

[Brad Parker <brad%heeltoe.com@localhost>]

Matt Fleming wrote:
>
>AFAIU we had shared lib support but lost it. Check out PR/21748. I'm not
>sure exactly at what point we lost shared lib support though.
>
>I was talking to Matt Thomas and he said that the real issue with vax is
>current gcc support. Newer versions of gcc are lacking decent vax support.
>
>It'd be interesting if you could run 4.0.1 on your machine, but I don't
>think it'll be much fun, unfortunately.

Well, I just made a "vax780" specific kernel config file and built
a kernel and booted it with simh (vax780)

# ps axl
ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory
UID PID PPID  CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN    STAT TT    TIME COMMAND
  0   0    0    0 103  0   0 296 schedule DKl  ?? 0:00.01 [system]
  0   1    0    0  63  0  28 352 wait     Is   ?? 0:01.09 init -s 
  0   2    1    0  63  0 188 728 wait     Ss   ?? 0:-1.31 -sh 
  0   5    2 1024  21  0  72 508 -        R+   ?? 0:00.05 ps -axl 
# uname -a
NetBSD vax 5.0_BETA NetBSD 5.0_BETA (VAX780) #0: Wed Jan  7 14:41:23 EST 2009  
brad@mwave:/files1/netbsd/NetBSD-5_beta/root/obj/files1/netbsd/NetBSD-5_beta/root/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/VAX780
 vax

It seems to be happy with my netbsd 2.0.2 shared libraries.  My nfs root
is from the 2.0.2 distribution.

oddly, the nfs kernel procs are gone.  no doubt they got sucked into
some internal kernel threads or something (I'm ignorant - I stepped away
from netbsd around 2.0)

I'll go read the PR.

-brad

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