Re: anyone have a theory why net boot of a SPARC20 hangs?

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> I've got a spare qec I can pop into a 20 and see if I can figure out
> what it takes to make netboot work; it'd be an old kernel, but if
> that'd help anyone I can do it.  ("Old kernel" meaning 1.4T, 4.0.1, or
> 5.2, or if whoever wants it is willing to wait a while, 1.6.2.)

That would be very nice!  Looking at the changes since 5.2:

  https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/sparc/sparc/autoconf.c.diff?r1=1.229;r2=1.273;f=h

I think that a fix that works for 5.2 would also apply easily to -current.

Regards,

Julian

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