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Re: The problems in src/sys/dev/ic/isp.c



On 5/2/26 10:36, Jason Thorpe wrote:

On May 2, 2026, at 6:15 AM, Dennis Clarke <dc%genunix.com@localhost> wrote:
    So then ... dead in the water?

No, just haven’t gotten around to figure out why the panic happens there.  It seems to be unique to you.  Or maybe CIA chipset specific?

Anyway, to figure out what’s happening, I’m going to need to build you another image with some additional debugging in it.  Stay tuned, I’m planning to poke at it today.

BTW - is it possible for you to set up a net-boot server for your Alpha?  It would make the turn-around a /lot/ faster.


Well, I guess? At the moment I am not sure what is needed to net boot
a NetBSD machine and I will figure that out using an x86 machine first.

The idea is that the netboot server will be some FreeBSD server with a
specific MAC address and target client machine which will be some x86 thing. Just to get it all working. I assume BOOTp and TFTP and NFS are
required.

However, to netboot a DEC Alpha there would need to be some command
magic that happens after "init".


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken


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