Re: No go booting netbsd-8 on VLC

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 18 July 2017 at 06:29, Felix Deichmann <m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 2017-07-18 6:40 GMT+02:00 Felix Deichmann <m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost>:
>> -RELOC=0x3f0000
>> +RELOC=0x7f0000
>
> Ugh, IIRC anything greater than 0x3f0000 will break the loader on
> Q-Bus machines (and SIMH) with Q22 DMA. It should work on other
> machines (with enough memory) though.
> So should we make GENERIC smaller, rewrite the loader or ...?

Just a random thought, how difficult would it be to add a check to the
bootloader to detect when loading a kernel it would overwrite itself,
and to stop with a warning?

Then at least we would know when/if this issue hits.

David