Subject: misc/33544: helpful advice for advice in 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file
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From: None <woods@becoming.weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/24/2006 15:45:00
>Number:         33544
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       helpful advice for advice in 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 24 15:45:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Greg A. Woods
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
>Organization:
Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	the advice in the 3.0 LAST_MINUTE file about machines with more than
	2GB of memory is missing helpful and necessary advice that will allow
	a working kernel to be made.

>How-To-Repeat:

	re-build a kernel without following this additional advice and watch
	it reboot the machine before it starts

>Fix:


Index: LAST_MINUTE
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/src/doc/LAST_MINUTE,v
retrieving revision 1.2.4.2
diff -u -r1.2.4.2 LAST_MINUTE
--- LAST_MINUTE	18 Dec 2005 14:00:30 -0000	1.2.4.2
+++ LAST_MINUTE	24 May 2006 14:35:53 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 	options KERNBASE_LOCORE="0x80000000"
 	makeoptions TEXTADDR="0x80100000"
 
+	Be sure you "make clean" in your kernel build directory after
+	adding these lines!
+
 	This will increase the kernel virtual space to 2 GB, but this
 	has the drawback that the application virtual space is
 	decreased from 3 GB to 2 GB (since the 32-bit address space