Re: A few issues while playing with virt68k

[John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost>]

> (Disklabels definitely work.)

Because I couldn't bootstrap a big endian disk image on a little endian 
machine, I used aarch64eb. Apparently disklabels aren't compatible between 
aarch64eb and m68k :(

But I needed to boot virt68k to use virt68k... Now that I have a booting
virt68k, a "disklabel -D" followed by a "disklabel -I -i" works.

Now that I have good disklabels, booting with -append "root=ld0a" goes 
multiuser on its own :)

Next is to figure out networking issues. pkgsrc fetching distfiles often 
gives plenty of these:

[ 224.9800030] vioif0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
[ 224.9800030] vioif0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
[ 227.9700030] vioif0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)

Networking is configured using a tap bridged to the host's ethernet (rge).

Communicating to distcc on a machine on the same network gives occasional 
errors and hangups, but communicating to distcc on the host machine does 
not. Fetching distfiles works much of the time, but hangs now and then.

Sigh. This is a separate issue that has to do with rge buggines. I added 
an re ethernet card and tested using that, and all the networking problems 
went away :P

Yay for working virt68k! Amazing work, Jason :)

John