Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro%orcam.me.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> > That's just a GENERIC kernel? You can easily cross-build NetBSD on any
> > Linux box and copy over the kernel to the NetBSD system. I usually
> > just let it build on my CI host and fetch whatever I need from stored
> > build artifacts. NetBSD will use the host compiler to build its
> > internal toolchain (GCC 10 based) and use that to actually cross-build
> > the release artifacts.  Feel free to drop me patches, you'll get free
> > compilation-as-a-service. :)
> 
> As soon as I have completed my native build, I plan to start digging into the
> whole time issue as well. It seems clear it's a problem not only on something
> like simh, but on real hardware as well. So we might very well also have
> multiple problems... Next week I will be able to fire up my real 4000/90, to
> avoid any issues by simh.

 I suspect the 4000/90 will behave differently due to a different local 
time source: ICR vs DIAGTIM/U.

  Maciej