> 
> I can't get a kernel built. I've just sup'ed the ksrc-common and
> ksrc-pmax distributions, and followed the directions in
> doc/pmax/BUILD.  I've been using gcc 2.5.8 and the Ultrix 4.2a
> as/ld. I've rebuilt libkern/qdivrem.o without the ld -x step, to get
> around a bug in the ultrix ld.

what bug...i'm using ultrix 4.0

> 
> I've commented in the lines in locore.s that explictly load $gp.  I'm
> guessing this is the appropriate thing to do when using the Mips
> toolset.  (I don't know a suitable preprocessor to test for the Mips
> assembler, vs. a NetBSD assembler, or I'd include a patch.) Without
> this I get lots of error messages from ld about unresolvable GP_REL
> symbols.
> 

You should be building the kernel -G0. so no GP shit is done.

> A resulting kernel, configured from GENERIC.pmax seems to boot off an
> Ultrix partition, and is capable of mounting an Ultrix ufs root
> partition. But the Ultrix mount(8) can't mount an Ultrix ufs.
> 

i know about the second....try to compare /dev/ to conf.c and see if
conf.c is out of sync.

> I don't have a good sense of where the port should go from here.  Does
> it make more sense to cross-compile a root partition containing a
> NetBSD init, sh, mount, and so on; or to bash on the Ultrix
> compatibility code?

bash on the ultrix compat stuff...i'm beating hard on the native
binaries problem.

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