>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net> writes:

    Jamie> OK, got around to building a 2.0 kernel, installed the
    Jamie> bootloader this time, and indeed, the serial console works
    Jamie> just fine once I'm using the netbsd bootloader. Kernel
    Jamie> still crashes when I try to ftp a file though. Here are the
    Jamie> details:

    Jamie> trap: TLB miss (load or instr. fetch) in kernel mode
    Jamie> status=0x2403, cause=0x8008, epc=0x8015e6f4, vaddr=0xc523b000
    Jamie> pid=459 cmd=ftpd usp=0x7fffda80 ksp=0xc508fb38
    Jamie> Stopped in pid 459.1 (ftpd) at  netbsd:r5k_pdcache_wb_range_32+0xc0:    cache   
    Jamie> 0   
    Jamie> x19,0x0(a0)

Looks very similar to the problems I have:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2004/11/09/0000.html

(which makes hardware failure quite unlikely... :-))

Reading all the comments there seem to be problems with cobalts pci
and some r5k cache handling present which are not solved, yet.

Markus.