Hi,

I'm blessed? with a PB540c which I'm trying to run NetBSD on.  I've
gotten a somewhat functioning system up using the 1.5SBC kernel with
the 1.5.2 base and etc binary sets.  The problem, as always, is the
bloody LC040.  

I have a question for those of you who run the FPE using an 030.  When 
I boot my dmesg has a line of the form

fpu0 at mainbus0 (emulator)

what does your line say?

Why do I care?  I was looking at the mac68k locore.s file and when we
task switch we check to see if we have a fpu.  If we do, we save the
fp registers, else not.  Sensible.  Except that the variable fputype
is set to 0 both for no fpu as well as emulator.  I wondered if this
might be the problem?  Maybe not.  Once I hack some more I can test
this, but it's tough to build a kernel when awk falls over :-) Off to
build a libc where the calls generated by -msoft-fpu really are
emulated :-)

Other than the fpu problem the pb540 (and probably the 520) works fine
except when I set a netmask of 255.255.252.0 and then I almost always
get a hang right after I try to telnet in.

NetBSD is quite nice.  It brings back fond memories of SunOS 3.5.  

Thanks!

cheers

bruce

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