Subject: Re: ttys with -current
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: David Forbes <dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/09/1998 17:04:49
> During boot, when at the "Setting tty flags" stage, I get:
> 	ttyflags: open /dev/ttyv0: Operation not supported by device

D'Oh!  Apologies for being dense: I'd forgotten to setup ttyE*, hadn't
I....   so now I can boot without errors and log in  :-)

However, I'm still getting this error and I've fiddled with everything I
can think of.

> However, there is one exception.  I have a serial terminal attached to
> /dev/tty01.  I don't get the errors above for /dev/tty01, and the getty
> starts and I get a login prompt on the terminal.  When I type a character,
> though, it all goes horribly wrong: (This on the console, in cyan)
> 
> Fault with intr_depth>0
> Data abort: 'Translation fault (page)' status=007 address=effffffc
> 							PC=f012dd9f4
> Instruction @Vf012d9f4 = e7972109
> stopped in getty at _Debugger+0x10 : ldmdb r11, {r11, r13, r15}
> db> tr
> _Debugger
> _data_abort_handler
> _comstart
> _ttstart
> _ttwrite
> _comwrite
> _spec_write
> _ufsspec_write
> _vn_write
> _dofilewrite
> _sys_write
> _syscall
> 
> [Copied and typed... E&OE]

pppd & chat also cause the same problem, but on /dev/tty00.

Can anyone tell me what's changed between 1.3F and 1.3I to cause this?
All my binaries are now statically linked to libraries and everything was
built at the same time from the same source tree.

Thanks,

David.