On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:51:15AM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > > I can now boot my A4000 to single user mode and enable swapping, which
> > > I've never been able to do before. This stops all the 'VM shortage,
> > > sleeping' messages :-) I still had to use a 'tuned' kernel config, though
> > > - the FOURMEG config still doesn't quite work.
> > Wow!  I'd almost got my A3020 to work this well, but not quite.
>
> Well, I tried going to multi-user after I'd enabled swap, but sh dumped core
> processing the rc scripts (this was using a userland from the latest snapshot
> - I still want to try a more recent cross-built userland before I start
> panicing about this).

Ah.  That looks like you're in about the same state as me, then.  Have you
got root on NFS?  For some reason, writing over NFS seems to be flakey at
the moment, which makes getting valid coredumps to debug difficult.

> > > and vt220l8x8 could probably be made const (presumably, all the other
> > > wsfonts will need similar fixes)
> > No, it can't.  The wsfont machinery byte- and bit-swaps fonts in place if
> > they turn out to be the wrong endianness for the framebuffer.
>
> Ah, okay. Presumably it only does the byte/bit swapping once, when the wsfont
> stuff is initialised?

I think so.  It all looked a bit of a mess when I was last in that area,
though.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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