Subject: Re: UVM/PMAP_NEW on i386 panics
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+mail@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1998 10:46:44
I've been running new pmap and new UVM for months. Things work great
for me. One proviso: I recompiled userland for UVM and PMAP_NEW.

Perry

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
> Anders.Hjalmarsson@economics.gu.se writes:
> 
> > Has anyone tried UVM/PMAP_NEW on a 386 ?  When I tried it I got a
> > panic 'no init' after booting. It seems to work ok with UVM and the
> > old pmap.  Looking at the source to pmap.new.c there is a lot of
> > special cases for i386, I suppose they haven't been tested much.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same on an old i386 box here.
> It's currently doing a "make build" while running a UVM kernel built
> from the April 25th tar balls, and seems happy.  Adding PMAP_NEW to
> the kernel config file gives a kernel that boots, says the right
> things about what it will use for root and swap, but panics when it
> can't find /sbin/init.  I've been through the various permutations of
> boot blocks and partition IDs, just to be sure.
> 
> -tih
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