Subject: Re: New kernel
To: None <howi@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/15/1997 19:54:41
Hi Wolfgang,

> I need some advice :
> 
> Some days ago I installed the complete 1.2.1 version.
> Everything worked fine, including X-windows etc.
> Offcourse the CyberSCSI driver was not included,
> but it is part of the 1.2G kernel I found.
> 
> Question :
> 
> How to install this new kernel ? I dont't have anything
> more which is marked as 1.2G.
> 
> I tried to just replace the kernel, both on BSD and Amiga side.
> This worked fine, I could boot into it, but had some bad sideeffects,
> like
> my grfmodes file is not accepted anymore and more.

This is correct. Also, ps, parts of systat, parts of vmstat wont work,
and I am pretty sure that you should have problems with swap.

1.2G is a member of the post-1.2-release main branch of development,
while 1.2 and 1.2.1 are a release branch, which is a dead end. Ive put a
graph of this onto http://www.netbsd.org/, select "NetBSD_curretn",
select "NetBSD_current" again.

You'll have to wait for the 1.2G snapshot, or for the 1.3-ALPHA
snapshot, to use that kernel. Its only meant for people betatesting the
-current development branch.

Regards,
	-i.s.
	Ignatios Souvatzis