Hi,

last night I finally managed to cross-build a 
working version of NetBSD 3 for the z50 (I assume 
that's what I get when I check out -rnetbsd-3?)... 
Just a short report, had to go to work this morning 
before I could do any further testing...

With mipsX_subr.S reverted to 1.5, the GENERIC 
kernel boots fine, just some things don't work in 
my setup - but that may be due to the way I did 
it (which used to work with previous installations, 
but then it's been a year or so since I did that 
the last time, and maybe I forgot something):

I didn't use the installer, but booted from my 
old, working, netboot setup, and just untar'ed 
the distribution sets to my boot drive. 
Created the devices (with the old MAKEDEV 
script, because the new one uses mknod options 
unknown to my 1.6something netboot system), 
set up fstab and rc.conf.

Reboot into single-user mode with the new system, 
re-created the device files with the new MAKEDEV
script.

Up to that point, everything is fine, I just have 
a few problems left: 

After booting into multi-user mode, dhclient starts 
and gets an IP address, but networking doesn't work - 
even a ping to localhost gets no answer (the dhcp 
address is configured on the external interface, though, 
and routing seems to be set up ok).

Some commands segfault, I noticed "w" and "uptime". 
Things like "last" and "who" do work, though. No 
time for anything more complicated :)

During multi-user boot, the rc scripts hang when 
sendmail should start up, but that may be due to 
broken networking (and no DNS). Other services get 
started fine, even ssh keys were generated.

Alex.