Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, T. Makinen wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Izumi Tsutsui 
> <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > Note sysinst doesn't have menu items for ATARITT and FALCON kernels.
> > http://cvsweb.NetBSD.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/atari/md.h?rev=1.18
> > Should we have them or not?
>
> I guess it's better to have them aboard that not :) Another issue with

        Will test build (plus with further trimmed SMALL030 (BOOT)) with
        updated sysinst kernel list before commit.

> sysinst is when user wants to install sets from unmounted fs; installer by
> default doesn't use -G flag when it mounts filesystem. To make it work
> filesystem field must specified like "msdos -o -G" or filesystem should
> be mounted before extraction of sets starts and "local filesystem" method
> should be used; at least this must be documented.

        What is the difference between a Atari-Gemdos and MSDOS
        filesystem, can it *always* be reliably determined by looking at
        the MBR or similar? If so then maybe NetBSD should be handling
        that auotmatically...

> Whatever we do, maybe we should keep one kernel without RELOC_KERNEL
> because there's comment in atari/atari_init.c in line 151 saying that
> RELOC_KERNEL does not work on all TT's.

        For now I'm inclined to say that should be SMALL030 (until we
        find someone with such a machine who is willing to test kernels
        to work out why!)

        Hmm.. what would RELOC_KERNEL do on a machine with 2MB of TTRAM?

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