Subject: Re: boot from macppc
To: dario billo <dario.billo@libero.it>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/08/2003 23:40:07
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:06:24PM +0100, dario billo wrote:
> "decrementer exception at %SRR0: 000000ba    %SRR1: 0000ba00"
> and dont start the boot. I don't understand what is it, have you any idea?
> 
> For information, I've a powerbook 1 GHz, can this to be a problem? I've 
> read that NetBSD 1.6 isn't tested on this platform, but should work.

Our ofwboot doesn't work on the new 867 and 1000 MHz Powerbooks.

The OpenBSD ofwboot has problems too, but it just happens to work
with certain NetBSD kernels that appear to have certain subtle
alignment characteristics.

While the actual problem hasn't been diagnosed, I have put up some
files that should get you going for now.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/soren/macppc/

I also suggest that you use recent -current userland snapshots
along with these files:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20030218-1.6K/ (base)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20030303-1.6O/ (X11)


-- 
Soren