On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Gerardo Alvarez wrote:

> But then I stumbled into a problem with FPU emulation in 68030 (or so I
> understood, I might be wrong) and couldn=B4t get to install the
> distribution, as the formatting utility in the installation kernel
> always ended in a kernel IO error or something like that, seemengly "a
> side-effect of moving to ELF" plus a bug in gcc (
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2002/09/05/0001.html ).

That turned out to be a bug in the "multi-cpu" run-time selection,
which is now fixed. ("multi-cpu" means a kernel that's configured to
run on either '040's or '030's or '020's.)

I believe you still can't run a GENERIC kernel with only 4mb RAM,
maybe not even 8mb. I would like to add some kernels suitable for low
RAM machines to the standard build, if anyone would like to report
what works for them. SMALLRAM is a good start, but it's for '030 only,
and it's not even built as part of the release.

Frederick