Subject: Re: TME emulator status: now works with SunOS ethernet
To: None <SigmFSK@aol.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 12/24/2006 18:37:26
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:15:39PM -0500, SigmFSK@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/22/2006 3:28:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> bouyer@antioche.eu.org writes:
> > One thing that may help is that you can  build sun3 systems with "large"
> > amout of RAM (128 or 256MB) with tme;  sometimes cc1 gets quite large
> > -- 
> > Manuel Bouyer _bouyer@antioche.eu.org_ (mailto:bouyer@antioche.eu.org) 
>  
> That's awesome Manuel.  How did you setup TME to allow more than  32Mb?  If I 
> setup my-sun3-eeprom.bin and MY-SUN3 startup script to 32Mb,  everything 
> works fine, and the prom screen shows 32MB memory installed, then  NetBSD inside 
> the emulator reports total: 32768KB, avail: 30320KB.
>  
> If I setup the eeprom/startup with 64Mb, everything seems to work fine, but  
> the prom screen and NetBSD (inside the emulator) still report 32Mb.
>  
> If I setup with 128Mb, then tme core dumps immediately upon initial  
> execution.

Well I didn't say that TME does actually work with >32Mb RAM (I didn't
try) but in theory is should. That doesn't mean there's no bugs to be
fixed :)
For 128M and larger maybe you need to unlimit first.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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