Subject: Success with 1.5U (was: Re: NetBSD 1.5T test kernel vs. serial ports)
To: None <eeh@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/11/2001 18:26:18
> No zs attach messages there.  Hm.
> 
> Could you try the 1.5U version I just uploaded to see if it has the same
> problem?

That kernel works just fine.  Way to go Eduardo!  (And Matt)

No complaints about the EIDE disk ... no complaints (so far) about Ethernet
overruns ... "xfs" now runs without crashing immediately at boot time ...
SunOS binaries now run (like Netscape 4.6.1) ... only problem is that the
"hme0: invalid packet size 2048; dropping" error (which I've commented out
in my own 1.5 kernel) is back - although, seemingly, less often than before.

The only other problem I saw with this new 1.5U kernel is that "ntpd" still
dies with an "Alignment error: dsfsr=00000000:00800001 dsfar=ffffffff:ffff9854
isfsr=00000000:00000000 pc=10c354" error.  (I work around that by doing an
"ntpdate" every 10 minutes from "cron")

You guys rock.  If I could get a 1.5U kernel bound to root on sd0a, swap on
sd0b, file system type ffs (vs. generic) - i.e., so it doesn't ask at boot
time every time - and with the "hme0: invalid packet size 2048; dropping"
error commented out, I'd be a *very* happy camper.

Thanks!

	- Greg