Subject: Re: Status report (Good news!)
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Harry Schreurs <HLS@oce.nl>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/24/1994 18:11:38
> I've finally been able to put enough time into the NetBSD/sun3
> project to get the kernel into fairly reliable condition.
> 
> My test machine (Sun3/60, 4MB RAM, SCSI disk) survives overnight
> on my thrashing test (run more processes than will fit in RAM)
> without any process dropping core or anything!
> 
> Here is a summary of the changes:
> 
> * Many, many changes to the pmap code, including some design
>   changes to allow more thorough consistency checking.
> 
> * Update pmap and startup code to use MACHINE_NONCONTIG, so
>   the kernel will "keep off" the Sun3/50 video RAM buffer.
>   (The Sun3/50 should now work with the bwtwo console.)
>

I can confirm this. It's now possible to use the bwtwo console
on a Sun3/50. The kernel that has been built by me was't as stable
as Gordon's kernel.

Apart from this, I noticed that many binaries now generate Bus errors!  

Regards,

Harry Schreurs

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