On 7/28/05, Alexander Bochmann <ab@lists.gxis.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> 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...
>=20
> 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):
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Reboot into single-user mode with the new system,
> re-created the device files with the new MAKEDEV
> script.
>=20
> Up to that point, everything is fine, I just have
> a few problems left:
>=20
> 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).
>=20
> Some commands segfault, I noticed "w" and "uptime".
> Things like "last" and "who" do work, though. No
> time for anything more complicated :)
>=20
> 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.

I would call this a definite step down compared to 2.0.2 though. 2.0.2
"just works" with everything I've tried.

Andy