Scott Reynolds wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Hauke Fath wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > mrg: kernel has no ROM vectors for this machine!
> > 
> > well, there's the problem.  that line is obviously quite wrong!
> 
> well, not knowing for sure whether a serial console was used to capture
> this, i'm not sure.  i'll assume that this message is bogus, though.

ah, true.  that's quite possible (and i suppose quite likely unless hauke
typed all that in by hand).  blast.  i thought i had found the easy
answer...
 
> > perhaps
> > the uvm stuff has somehow screwed up the mapping of the lowmem globals or
> > the mac rom space.
> 
> definitely not the lowmem globals.  those are part of the kernel text, no
> question.  as far as the ROM space, that shouldn't be a problem, either,
> unless the ROM is bigger than 2MB.  (it'd be nice to get confirmation of
> this, by the way.)  my experience with fixing a problem in pmap_init()
> suggests that UVM is less forgiving of pmap-related mistakes.

hmmmm....do you happen to know of a good way to get the size of the roms?
 
> > Hmmm...I don't think that the obio and nubus changes would affect this at
> > all, but I could be wrong.
> 
> the only changes here were related to the location of various files.  no
> code changes were made.

that's what i figured.  oh well.  we'll have to find something else, then.

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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