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Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...



Great, cdhdtape is perfect waiting for the test image ;)

On 7/18/2021 6:44 AM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
On Jul 17, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:

ANYWAY, I have a hunch about what might be happening.  I need to refresh my memory about the operating modes of the i8259 PIC.  Stay tuned...
Istvan - what's your preferred “test kernel delivery mechanism”?
Preparing "cdhdtape" image (as alpha/installation/diskimage/
in release dirs) was a possible way in the past.
Yah, that’s probably easiest.  I’m going to enable DDB in the INSTALL kernel in my local tree for debugging purposes.

-- thorpej



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