Subject: Sparc 5 newbie stuff
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/24/2002 13:11:20
So, my Sparc 5 became available for whatever I feel like running on it.  My
first idea was to try setting it up running NetBSD.  I've put in a pair of
drives, and I'm pretty sure they're both Ultra2/Wide/LVD.  I expected them
to show up as Fast/Wide or Ultra/Wide, but in fact, they're just showing up
as Fast/Narrow.  Does the SS5 not support wide devices?

Anyway, the main reason I'm writing is that I'm having very weird behavior
from "build.sh".  I'm running a 1.5Y snapshot, with a 1.5ZA kernel built
last night or so.  If I don't set BSDOBJDIR, I get a complaint that /usr/obj
doesn't exist while build.sh is trying to bootstrap nbmake.  If I set it to,
say, /usr/src/obj, and make a directory /usr/src/obj, it goes for quite a
while, then fails because of too many symlinks - and /usr/src/obj has become a
symlink to /usr/src/obj.

Since I used this same source tree to build on an alpha (yes, I did a make
cleandir before copying it over), and build.sh worked there, I'm pretty
confused.

BTW, I don't suppose anyone has any interest in making a driver for the SunPC
card?  I have this spare '486-on-a-card in the Sparc 5, and it's effectively
useless to me, so far as I know.

-s