Re: port-vax/60478: releng testbed is busted on VAX

["Andreas Gustafsson via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-vax/60478; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
To: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
    campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost
Subject: Re: port-vax/60478: releng testbed is busted on VAX
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:59:22 +0300

 Robert Elz wrote:
 > Neither of those should matter, different kinds of consoles
 > might though, do they (at least amd64 and i386) use the same
 > generic type of console, say vga, or com, or do they differ
 > in that area?   That kind of thing might explain some differences.
 
 All three use emulated serial consoles.
 
 > That's fine, I didn't expect it would, but it does set up the environment
 > in which the guest finds itself, and if there are material differences there,
 > it might explain things - but if both i386 and amd64 are (say) booting and
 > then just using the bios to access a VGA console, I'm finding it hard to
 > see why one would act differently than the other.   Perhaps the difference
 > is even between EFI and BIOS booting - but somewhere, there must be a
 > difference (that would in some way affect what the shell when it starts
 > sees as stdin/stderr).  I am fairly sure that nothing is passing odd args
 > to the boot shell to make a difference that way.
 
 For what it's worth, i386 boots from emulated floppies and amd64 from
 an emulated CD-ROM, but I don't see how that could make a difference,
 either.
 
 >   | PS.  I am replying to your NetBSD.org address because my mail server
 >   | 185.55.84.130 is unable to reach the munnari.oz.au mail server 202.29.151.3.
 > 
 > You apparently live in a bad (network) neighbourhood.   The whole of 185/8
 > was blocked (for everything) due to some (must have been fairly massive)
 > bad behaviour.   I have whitelisted your specific addr now, so that should
 > work, at least for now -- I need to make sure my manually added whitelists
 > survive reboots (the blocks certainly do).   Fortunately munnari doesn't
 > reboot very frequently.
 
 Thanks.  I use a small local hosting provider who apparently have a /22,
 so most of 185/8 is not them.
 -- 
 Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost