I downloaded the 1.5B2 syssrc.tgz, built it, booted it
on a G4 with 2GB physical memory configuration.
here's what she wrote:



load-size=ef20 adler32=5bf80b7e

Loading ELF

>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
>> (tsubai@moeko, Sun Feb  6 23:24:18 JST 2000)
Boot: hd:0,/netbsd-1.5B2
2900880+237436 [100+105392+88705]=0x32dc30
 start=0x100000
[ preserving 194852 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

panic: poalloc
Stopped in  at  cpu_Debugger+0x10:      lwz r0, r1, 0x14,
db> trace
at panic+e8
at pmap_copy_page+25c
at pmap_enter+3c8
at pmap_kenter_pa+2c
at uvm_pageboot_alloc+100
at uvm_page_init+1b0
at uvm_init+50
at main+80
at __start+90
db>



sorry, I don't know why it broke.  apparently it faults unexpectedly
in pmap_copy_page() before we've been through pmap_init().
perhaps GENERIC is not expected to run on large memmory systems...
if there a better config file to use, please advise.

regards,
	-cliff-


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