Hi,

Thanks for testing this.

The softfloat build should work fine regardless of the type of LC040
you have.  The type of LC040 changes whether or not a FPU instruction
can be trapped correctly.  The softfloat build should have *no* fpu
instructions.  All of the FPU instructions should be replaced by calls
to subroutines by gcc.

cheers

bruce


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:20:46PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 
> >The 23 May mac68k softfloat build lives at:
> >
> >ftp://lain.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-release-2.0-mac- 
> >softfloat
> >/
> 
> Okay, I gave this one a shot. Tried the install kernel, it got along to  
> the point where it was supposed to partition the disks, and it saw the  
> map left over from when I partitioned with the Mac HD Setup utility. It  
> let me set the mount points, then complained that it couldn't open  
> something (which I forgot to write down, silly me). So, when it checked  
> to see if it could install, it said the file system did not look like a  
> netbsd file system.
> 
> So, I specifically changed each volume to what it was, in an attempt to  
> get disklabel to write the label, but it still failed to open whatever  
> it was.
> 
> So, I dropped out to the shell, newfs-ed each partition by hand  
> (defaults, no errors reported), then ran sysinst again. This time it  
> allowed me to proceed to attempt to load from ftp. But about half way  
> through the first tarball, kern-GENERIC.tgz, it choked, complaining  
> there is no space left on the device. (70 M on root should be enough,  
> right?)
> 
> This is the same machine that reported flaky disk usage numbers on  
> netbsd 1.6, allowed me to load the base set into a single root  
> partition from the Macside tools, but kept hanging when I tried to move  
> things where they belong.
> 
> I guess maybe what I need to do is put together some test machine code  
> that would tell me if this LC040 is one of that batch that was really  
> botched. If that's not the case, I'm thinking I should suspect that my  
> SCSI circuitry is broken. The machine's stability under Mac OS was  
> never great and has been declining noticeably in the last year or so.
> 
> Which means I doubt the above information will be anything but noise,  
> but I thought I'd post my results anyway.
> 

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