Re: i386 GENERIC_PAE panics (i915drmkms related?)

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

Booting GENERIC_PAE with -c (userconf) and disabling "i915drmkms":

NetBSD 7.99.59 (GENERIC_PAE) #1: Tue Jan 17 16:17:00 CST 2017
	sysop%dpe2850b.technoskunk.fur@localhost:/d0/build/current/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC_PAE
total memory = 8025 MB
avail memory = 7864 MB
WARNING: module error: module `nfs' pushed by boot loader already exists
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
running cgd selftest aes-xts-256 aes-xts-512 done
userconf: configure system autoconfiguration:
uc> disable i915drmkms
[425] i915drmkms* disabled
uc> exit
Continuing...
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 0x11<memory_size>
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
Dell Inc. OptiPlex 760                 
mainbus0 (root)
[...]

avoids the panic and the machine completes booting.

The intent of booting i386 release on this amd64 machine is to build
packages for i386 faster than even my fastest real i386 can.  It's faster,
has more CPUs and with the extra RAM and PAE, I can put WRKOBJDIR in
/tmp on tmpfs for everything except "misc/libreoffice".

(I've experimented with ccache/distcc for this, but have not been able
to make it work so far, although that was trying to use amd64 host with
sparc toolchain to build for sparc.)

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