Subject: Re: Weird Crashes, RAM propblem? Now Kernel Compile
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/25/2000 22:21:04
I'm not completedly clear on how to apply the patch. 

patch /sys/arch/amiga/dev/sbic.c [patchfile] 

is this correct? 

Thanks again! 
Ben


On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> > Thank you to all who gave me suggestions on my problem. I got to the 
> > motherboard this weekend and pushed in all zips and other little house 
> > keeping things. I also cleaned all the card contacts. I'm now having no 
> > problems. Running X now as hapiliy as i did before. 
> 
> "NetBSD--- touch RAM that no AmigaDOS program has touched before!" ;-)
> 
> > Now I'm having another little (in comparision) problem. I'm trying to 
> > compile my own 1.4.1 kernel and am running into some difficulty. Here is 
> > the error:
> > 
> > cc1:warnings being treated as errors
> > ...amiga/dev/sbic.c in function `sbic_dump' 
> > ...amiga/dev/sbic.c:2864: warning argument is not a pointer. (arg 4)
> > 
> > I've just commented out all the hardware i don't have... Here is the 
> > config file:
> 
> You didn't mention that you added DEBUG... but its visible in your config
> file.
> 
> Anyway, you need sys/arch/amiga/dev/sbic.c 1.34.6.1. (This is
> scheduled to be in the upcoming 1.4.2 patch release, and accessible
> through anoncvs or the netbsd-release sources on ftp).
> 
> Or apply the patch below to your sbic.c. 
> 
> Regards,
> 	-is
> 

Ben Bogart
NetBSD 1.4.0, GENERIC Kernel, Amiga 3000, 24MB Ram, 2.1GB HD, EGS Spectrum Card.

"CPU clock speed is nothing--system architecture is everything."
 - John Blommers, Hewlett-Packard