Subject: Re: Ultra 10, anyone?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/22/2002 20:43:46
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:47:53AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Has anyone successfully rebuild NetBSD 1.6(branch) on a Ultra 10?
> 
> Using the latest snapshot from releng.netbsd.org, I get lots of "signal
> 11"s during compilation. I'v replaced the machine's RAM (4*256 -> 4*64),
> but that didn't make any differences.
> 
> I have set diag-switch? to 'true' in the PROM, and the power-up selftest
> showed the RAM is on (in both configs, 256MB and 64MB modules).
> 
> For building the system, I have this in /etc/mk.conf:
> 
> 	HOST_CFLAGS=    -O0
> 	CFLAGS=         -O0
> 
> I also tried setting this to en empty string, no difference.
> 
> I'd like to use the machine for production use soon, but with the current
> state, there's no way to get near that.

Sources on local disk, or NFS?

I had problems building with source on NFS due to bugs in the hme
driver code which were corrupting packets. A build of 1.6 worked
flawlessly with sources on local disk.

AFAIK, this is still an oustanding problem.

g.