Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.4N/pmax not bootable on 5000/133
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/19/1999 10:11:06
>> It's nice to know NetBSD/pmax -current kernel can run well after the large
>> change.   Anyone out there who have DS3100/DS5100/3MAX can comfirm newly
>> built kernel can run as before?  I'm interested in 3MAX dmesg.
>>
> Sorry to disappoint you, but my DS3100 fails to boot with a 1.4O kernel.
> A 3100-only kernel fails to compile due to a dangling reference to
> tcfb_cnattach in sys/arch/pmax/dev/findcons.c .  Putting #if NTC > 0...#endif
> around the offending lines lets it compile.  But either this kernel, or
> a GENERIC kernel from the same sources (1999/11/17) fails to detect
> kn01bus0 at mainbus0, resulting in a panic from cpu_initclocks.  I also
> noted that both 1.4O kernels (custom and generic) called this machine a
> 2100, while the release-branch kernel correctly identified it as a 3100.

It's clearly helpful to me.  Thank you for pointing the error.  The fix
should be easy.

Tohru Nishimura