On 2014-04-13 18:27, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/13/2014 10:04 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote:Just a "thanks" to all the people, who still keep this port working. I actually managed it to build a KERNEL & DISTRIBUTION on a VAX. Thanks again!Seconded. I'm not doing much with it just lately, but I did a few months ago, and then things got busy with work. I've gotten a gaggle of new VAXen here (including a pair of VAX-11/785s!) and plan to do much NetBSD/vax hacking in the not too distant future. Let's keep this port alive!
You are going to be soooo disappointed. Trying to just build a kernel on the 11/785 will take an estimated two weeks. Really.
It's not really doable on the 8650 any more either. :-(By the way, my comments about my 3500 a couple of weeks ago... After firing up my 4000/90, I'm now thinking that it's partly a problem that 16M of memory just is way too little to run NetBSD as well.
However, running on a simulated 8650 at least seems to have revealed some kind of issue if you were to have more than 64M in one 86x0. Unfortunately, I don't have quite that much in the real machine, so I can't verify this on real hardware, but using simh, VMS works fine with 512M while NetBSD goes wrong somewhere when you have more than 64M. Since NetBSD works ok on my 4000/90 with more memory, it must be something related to things early in the boot process, me thinks. I'm going to look at it soon, unless someone beats me to it.
I also have a bunch of uncommitted 86x0 stuff that I should try to send in.
Johnny
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