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

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 08:58:30 Nick Hudson wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 22:08:21 Matt Thomas wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:59:49PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > >> Don't bother. 5.0 is broken enough that it don't boot at all on our
> > >> 8650,
> > >> and when I tried it on my 4000/90 it just hangs after running
> > >> build.sh a day
> > >> or two.
> > >>
> > >>  Johnny
> > >
> > > NetBSD/vax is not currently capable of self-hosting. It doesn't even
> > > have
> > > shared library support :-(
> >
> > 4.0 doesn't have shared library support.   5.0 does.
>
> 4.1 will have shared library support.

Let me make that a bit clearer... all the required changes for vax shared 
library support are now on the netbsd-4 branch. When 4.1 is finally cut it 
will include support.

Nick