Subject: Re: build problems with minimal kernel
To: Timm Wetzel <twetzel@gwdg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-next68k
Date: 02/22/2000 21:47:57
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Timm Wetzel wrote:

> During my loading experiments I tried to build an absolutely minimal
> kernel (not much more than MFS and serial support). 
> 
> Some build problems popped up on this occasion:
> 
> - Leaving out m68030 support fails to link with an unresolved TBIA
>   reference (from locore.o IIRC). Apparently defining this directly to the
>   040-specific routine does not work everywhere.
> 
> - Leaving out xe (and IP) support fails to link because mb87xx.o and
>   if_xe.o are still linked in and have some unresolved references.
> 
> - I guess the callrom() from ZS_SER_ABORT is simply not yet implemented? 
> 
> - In some cases changes from re-running config weren't picked up by `make
>   depend; make netbsd'. Is this expected?
> 
> Is this worthy to diagnose/fix/send-pr? This is with a cross toolchain,
> -current from late January and small local modifications, but I could try
> again with a clean -current.
> 
	Definitely - any bugs are worth fixing :)

		David/absolute