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Re: Boot program changed



Excellent!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have made some changes to the boot program to allow large kernels to be
> loaded.
> This should solve the problems with the 8.0 boot.
>
> The changes are quite invasive and I haven't tested all drivers yet, but
> after that I will request pullup to NetBSD 8.

I struggled a few times with the stray interrupt until I figured out
what was going on.

My naive view was that anything beyond (4MB - boot loader size) for
the kernel was going to require some major changes since there was an
assumption in the loader that the DMA/scatter gather mapping was one
for one with kernel memory. For the uVax qbus machines i think the
mapping is limited to 4MB.  I will be interested in reviewing your
solution.

> -- Ragge

-chuck


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