Re: hack for ifconfig on m68000 (was: Floppy image overflow)

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost>]

On 2017/02/09 21:12, Matt Fredette wrote:
> > i386 version of TME works fine on amd64 (I've not checked whether amd64
> > version works or not). With the default setting in SUN2-MULTIBUS, the
> > system cannot enter multi-user mode. By increasing RAM to 7MB, the
> > system boot up successfully. With 8MB RAM, TME does not work at all
> > both on amd64 and i386. Something can be wrong with my setting. I just
> > modified "ram0" statement like this:
> >
> >   ram0 at obmem0 addr 0x0: tme/host/posix/memory ram 8MB
>
> It's been a while, but I remember that a Sun 2/120 could only have 8MB
> if you removed the framebuffer and used the serial console, because the
> framebuffer starts at 7MB.  From SUN2-MULTIBUS:
>
> bwtwo0 at obmem0 addr 0x700000 ipl 4: tme/machine/sun2/bwtwo type multibus
> zs1 at obmem0 addr 0x780000 ipl 6: tme/machine/sun2/zs
>
> I never tested TME with the 8MB configuration, but there's a decent
> chance that it will work.

Ah, thank you. I understand the situation.

By a little more investigation, I found that some programs like postfix,
nslookup, etc., fail to work, and output from others is corrupted. At
first sight, some string functions in libc seem to be broken. But I need
more time (if possible!) to examine further...

Thanks,
rin