Subject: Re: VS4000 kernel & boot(s)
To: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/24/2000 06:39:11
At 01:54 AM 4/24/00 , Michael Kukat wrote:
>Hi !
>
>On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > I've put a fresh GENERIC kernel up at 
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/kernels/
> > 
> > They are:
> > 
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 matt  netbsd   55384 Apr 23 20:03 boot-1.4X-VS4000
> > -rw-r--r--  1 matt  netbsd   76288 Apr 23 20:02 boot.mop-1.4X-VS4000
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 matt  netbsd  666313 Apr 23 19:58 netbsd-1.4X-VS4000.gz
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 matt  netbsd    5732 Apr 23 20:02 xxboot-1.4X-VS4000
>
>Very fine, but 2 questions on this...
>
>1) I just tried to boot this on my 4000/90, with this result:
>[blah...]
>dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x25000000 vec 524 ipl 15 maskbit 3
>dz0: 4 lines
>lkc0 at dz0
>panic: ptelen fault in system space: addr 0 pc 0
>syncing disks... done

Not surprising. I'm still debugging the VS4000/90 SCSI support.

>Is there any kernel around with really working 4000/90-support, best would be
>with DMA-SCSI included, so i can set up the box completely local to enjoy
>the power to compile the kernels in maybe less than 1 hour...

Nope.  I should finish it this week. 
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