Re: kern/55155: kernel linker errors on macppc GENERIC kernel in qemu

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/55155: kernel linker errors on macppc GENERIC kernel in qemu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:16:46 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:14:26PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > This sounds like a bootloader issue (and not passing symbols to the kernel),
 > it is probably qemu specific.
 
 Specifically:
 
 [these are from open bios:]
 Trying cd:,netbsd-GENERIC...
 >> switching to new context:
 [and these are from the kernel:]
 [   1.0000000] mem region 0 start=0 size=10000000
 [   1.0000000] avail region 0 start=0x1000 size=0xff000
 [   1.0000000] avail region 1 start=0xbc6004 size=0x3439ffc
 [   1.0000000] avail region 2 start=0x4800000 size=0xb458000
 [   1.0000000] avail region 3 start=0xfe10000 size=0xf0000
 [   1.0000000] [ Kernel symbol table invalid! ]
 
 
 Note the last line, and on real machine setups you would see ofwboot.xcf
 messages between OF and ther kernel.
 
 Martin