Subject: Re: TS-5500
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/2003 13:35:00
In message <200304030822.h338MMxb001303@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:
>A bit of further study suggests that a fairly standard Linux bootloader
>will load on this, and that, once booted, that kernel would just use ttyS1
>(BIOS COM2) as a console port.  This doesn't look all that different from the
>Soekris Net4501/Net4511/Net4521, and I haven't spotted anything to explain why
>it won't work.  It's particularly disturbing that 'dosboot -i' hangs
>immediately; this suggests that something about the BIOS calls in the
>standalone code is causing the problem.

Yup.  Gate A20.  Curiously, the source comments suggest this should be a
problem on all elansc systems, but it isn't on the Soekris Net45x1 boxes.

Fixing that gets me to a page fault in igmp_fasttimo; I'll play with
it more later today.

-s