Re: NetBSD 5.0 and SPARCstation 5 not a lucky combination

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Jon Buller wrote:

> Michael wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Erik Fair wrote:
> > > So, I'd like to see the wscons kernel configuration in -current  
> > > GENERIC pulled up to the netbsd-5 release branch. Mr. Portmaster,  
> > > can you please do the honors and make the necessary requests of our
> > > release engineering team?
> > Not sure that makes all that much sense - we need a few more  
> > changes for that ( mostly in /etc/ttys and such ) and 5.1 will be  
> > branched pretty soon - since it's going to branch from -current it  
> > will just inherit wscons.
>
> Since when is a minor release branched off -current instead of the  
> major
> release it is following?

ESMOKEDCRACK

> And while on the subject of problems with the console, I saw this
> problem on my SS20s with either a cg6 or a cg14, and on my LX.  But
> before I got that far I had to install a 4.0 system and upgrade it  
> to 5
> to see the wscons/video problem, as I couldn't get 5 on the machine  
> any
> other way.

Hrm, I never saw it on any of my hardware but it's all running wscons  
which was kind of the point of getting it in the first place.

> It seems that 5_rc or -current from that time has some real  
> difficulty with
> starting up something.  It appeared the either /dev/kbd disappeared  
> when
> login finished, or login was unable to pass open file descriptors for
> stdin and stdout to the shell it forked.

Any chance to check if this still happens with a wscons kernel?

have fun
Michael

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