Subject: Re: Kernel and compiler troubles
To: david@infotrek.demon.co.uk, RiscBSD mailing list <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/11/1996 18:50:53
>I have 66 MB of RAM, so I've been using the BSD-4634-64MB (Protagonist)
>kernel. I have now tried the Voyager 4702 kernel from the FTP site, and
>get as far as this on booting:
>[cut]
>kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3.
>panic: kmem_suballoc
>Stopped at     0xf01184bc:  ldmdb r11, {r11, r13, r15}

Ah you missed the mail regarding this ....

This is a problem that that will be fixed soon, (Needs a restructure of the
kernels virtual address space).
In the mean time the fix is to limit the number of buffer used.

Add the option

nbuf=500

to the extra options field in the bootloader.

Cheers,
				Mark

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