On Wed 01 Nov, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:
> 
> > > They're not the only PR's open awaiting something to happen (some are over a
> > > year old!)
> >
> > I can imagine.
> >
> 	I've just committed the following to -current and will try to get
> 	them pulled up into 1.5, but without access to my RiscPC I have
> 	to get someone else to test, which means we may miss the 1.5
> 	deadline...
> 
>         PR 8759 - NetBSD corrupts NVRAM for RISC OS 4 machines
>                 sys/arch/arm32/dev/rtc.c        1.11
>                 sys/arch/arm32/include/rtc.h    1.6
> 
>         PR 10539 - NetBSD hangs when probing Acorn SCSI card
>                 sys/arch/arm32/podulebus/sbic.c 1.19

If anyone has an install kernel that includes these fixes I will test it
as soon as I can get hold of it.

You see, I don't have NetBSD/arm32 up and running at all, and am
therefore unable to build anything.

There may be one other option, though, and that is if the cross-compiler
works on NetBSD/i386 as I have 1.5_ALPHA on my portable Dell Latitude
LS-400.

> > > > I think that both of these should be fixed before 1.5 is released, and
> > > > especially the former.
> > >
> > > Yes, but it's a matter of time on someone's part.
> >
> > OK, I can't do much about the former, but I can do something about the
> > latter, if I can find some time to do it.
> >
> 	If you can that would be excellent - if anyone wants to take a
> 	pass through the install notes and make suggestions that would
> 	be much appreciated.

I wrote the prep guide initially, and it may be ok for what is in there,
but please go through it anyway.

If I get some feedback, I can go through this next week when the
national championship in GTF Taekwon-Do is finished. I am participating
there. More info at: http://home.nitro.no/btk/ (Norwegian only).

> > As expected, the Acorn SCSI card with a PowerROM lead the Risc PC into
> > a hang, so I had to put podule1.disable in the boot loader extra
> > options.
> >
> > The kernel I used is the one that Chris made for the Epsom show.
> >
> 	Would that be fixed by the patch in PR 10539?

Probably not, but I can test that as well if someone has a kernel for
me.

> > > > Also, PR 9226 also is still at open.
> > >
> > > hmmm.  Is this any better in 1.5 alpha or beta?
> >
> > Unfortunately I have been unable to test that as the kernel panics on a
> > dead wd0 IDE drive when sysinst is trying to scan the drives after
> > having asked me whether I want to continue with the install to a new
> > drive (the first option in sysinst).
> >
> > The details are:
> > Sysinst install to harddrive
> >   - "Shall we continue?" Yes
> >      => wdc0:0:0: lost interrupt
> >         Type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> >         Non-emulated page fault with intr_depth > 0
> >         Data abort: 'Translation fault (page)' status=007 ...
> >         Stopped at inq_entry+0xa0 ldr r2,[r7,r9,lsl#2]
> >         db> trace
> >         _mi_switch
> >         _ltsleep
> >         _biowait
> >         _filecore_label_read
> >         _readdisklabel
> >         _wdgetdisklabel
> >         _wdopen
> >         _spec_open
> >         _vn_open
> >         _sys_open
> >         _syscall
> >
> > I managed to get the networking up and running on my Etherlan 600 (ne0),
> > and stuck the dmesg (/kern/msgbuf) at:
> > http://www.thomassen.priv.no/riscpc.dmesg.15alpha
> >
> > More information can be found at:
> > http://home.eunet.no/~kjetilbt/MyRiscPC/

Any information on the problem above?
Will that have been fixed in a later kernel?

> > I would like to congratulate the people who have fixed the problem with
> > ne0 that required it to be configured in RISC OS before booting NetBSD.
> > That is no longer necessary. Well done!
> >
> 	I think that owuld be Mike Pumford :)

Yes, that makes sense. Thanks Mike!

> > A couple of other problems I have seen:
> > 1) I am using a custom made monitor definition file (MDF) for my HP
> >    A1097C monitor. This only supports 1280x1024 in 70 Hz. I started the
> >    boot loader and defined the screen mode to X640 Y480 C256 F60 as my
> >    other monitor (see above) supports that. When I booted and switched
> >    to this monitor, that did not help at all. A shift-boot had to be
> >    done to solve it, and then it worked fine.
> > 2) Sometimes the computer hangs a long time before the colour stripes
> >    appear.
> > 3) After a ping from sysinst, the screen is not updated properly, and I
> >    therefore am unable to see that it was successful.
> >
> 	On that final point, could you try exiting from sysinst, setting
> 	the terminal type to vt100, and starting sysinst again?

I'll test that.

Kjetil B.
mailto:kjetil@thomassen.priv.no
http://www.thomassen.priv.no/