On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:

> > > Ian Fry made a kernel that is trying to save space so that he can boot
> > > on his 4 MB computer, but that did not get any further than starting
> > > cron (or was it updating motd),
> >
> > Did it panic, or just hang?
>
> It just hang there doing nothing. There was no activity on the network
> at all.

OK.  That fits with my experience of what happens when the system either
runs out of VM or starts trying to swap.

> Well, if only I had RISC iX. The R140 had RISC OS 2 when my friend
> bought it from the Acorn employee, and he didn't make sure he got a copy
> of it. Any ideas of where/how to get it?

Not in any useful form, no.

> > I get around 50 KB/s doing the same test.
>
> I am using an Access+ card that only has 10base-2, so that may have
> something to do with that.

Shouldn't do.  All Ether3s are much the same.

> > > If you want me to test anything, then please provide me with the stuff,
> > > and I will test.
> >
> > At the moment, it looks like your machine hasn't got anything I haven't
> > got here.  Oh, unless you've got a parallel printer.  I know that driver
> > doesn't work, but I haven't got a printer here to test it with.
>
> I do have a printer and a switch box with cables, so I could set it up
> to work with both my R140 and Risc PC. It's a Canon BJC-610.

Oh good.  I'll have another look at the driver then.

> What about the FPA10?

The issues there are complex.  I'll send a separate message about them.

> I also have an AKA-32 in my Risc PC that I can test out on the R140, and
> plenty of SCSI drives, a scanner and a CD-R drive.

The AKA32 is being worked on by Richard Earnshaw, so it might be a while
before we get a working driver.  That's the card with a PowerROM, isn't
it?

> Are you also using a 15 kHz monitor?

Yep.

> Since this is an R140, it does have the hires mono output, and I think
> that my HP A1097C monitor should be able to handle that. Would that be
> interesting?

Yes.  At the moment, rasops2 doesn't work properly on arm26, so you'll get
left-right reversed characters, but it should work otherwise in such a
mode.

> > Incidentally, I'm building a -current snapshot now.  It'll take a while.
>
> Excellent. When do you expect that to be available?

It'll be a few days.

> One more thing that I noticed is that when I su'ed to root with my
> NetBSD/sparc password db files (probably big-endian), the kernel
> paniced. Is that something that is likely to have been fixed, or should
> I send-pr it?

What's the panic message?  I'll see if I recognise it.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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