> Over the past few months, I have been working on a port of
> NetBSD/sparc to the Sun4m-series SPARCstations with the support of

Totally cool!

> Thus if anyone tries out the kernel, I'd appreciate hearing about any
> problems they encounter (other than the known bugs listed in the
> README file). The kernel is compiled with DEBUG, DIAGNOSTIC, and DDB
> to help locate bugs.

Ok, I just dropped the kernel into the netboot environment I used for
installing 1.1 as netbsd.sun4m and tried booting a SS5 from it.
It looks reasonably promising?

Type  help  for more information
ok boot net netbsd.sun4m -s
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/ledma@5,8400010/le@5,8c00000  File and args: netbsd.sun4m -s
b200 
>> NetBSD BOOT [$Revision: 1.4 $]
boot: client IP address: 144.136.188.248
boot: client name: h2
root addr=144.136.188.211 path=/export/root/h2
Booting netbsd.sun4m @ 0x4000
884704+74912+83024+[39336+42554]=0x1168ba
pmap_bootstrap: installing kernel page tables...(if this doesn't work, fix pmap_bootstrap4m in pmap.c)done.

[ preserving 81900 bytes of netbsd symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.1A (VIRTUAL4) #2: Sun Jan  7 08:27:00 EST 1996
    abrown@virtual4:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/VIRTUAL4
real mem = 33210368
avail mem = 29462528
using 405 buffers containing 1658880 bytes of memory
bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/ledma@5,8400010/le@5,8c00000
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: FMI,MB86904 (IU impl 0x0 vers 0x4 @ 0 MHz, L64804 FPU)
panic: bad cache line size -127875904
Stopped at      _Debugger+0x4:  jmpl            [%o7 + 0x8], %g0
db> 

I have to go boot it back to SunOS - as I'm building a config on it,
but if I can do some poking for you - let me know.

--sjg