Re: trouble with netbsd-8 on RPI3?

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:
>
>> gdt%lexort.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:
>>
>>>(gdb) run -f -d 2 -u named -t /var/chroot/named
>>>Starting program: /usr/sbin/named -f -d 2 -u named -t /var/chroot/named
>>
>>>Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
>>>0x652b3bc8 in _armv8_pmull_probe () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.12
>>
>> That's not a bug. libcrypto just probes the CPU capabilities and catches
>> the SIGILL. Since the debugger catches SIGILL first you need to resume
>> the process with 'cont'.
>
>Thanks.  Now this has come back to me from my last problem.  Continuing,
>I get another SIGILL in pthread.

Are you sure you have an earmv7hf-el userland ?

I have seen a similar error when trying to run an earmv4 userland with
an earmv7hf kernel. I was trying to build some earmv4 packages on a
faster machine.

I fixed it by setting the CPU control flag to enable the deprecated SWP
instruction.