hi folks.


in the 'good news' category:

while i was able to run konqueror itself on sparc64 for a while now,
'kde' itself failed miserably.  'kdm' couldn't even start Xsun.  this
has all changed with KDE 3.2, which so far appears to work fine... i
had one weird lossage the very first time i tried to login, but i've
not been able to reproduce it....


in the 'bad news' category:

32 bit kernels seem busted.  my U10/440's latest kernel crashed coming
upto multiuser, and the U5/300 has had the same problems with a GENERIC32.

the U5 looks like this, when it's trying to create an mfs /dev:

warning: no /dev/console
inidata fault: pc=12ddd10 addr=0
kernel trap 30: data access exception
Stopped in pid 1.1 (init) att    netbsd:ubc_release+0x1d0:       lduh            [
%g3 + 0x28], %g1
db> : Creating mfs /dev (370 blocks, 896 inodes)
db> t
ffs_write(0, 6ea2184, 6e3bbb8, 6ea2180, 1, 6) at netbsd:ffs_write+0x32c
VOP_WRITE(6e671b8, 6e3bcb8, 25, 1e25e80, ffffffff, 805) at netbsd:VOP_WRITE+0x30

vn_write(0, 6e94060, 6e3bcb8, 1e25e80, 1, c5) at netbsd:vn_write+0xcc
dofilewrite(16, 0, 6e94038, 40058000, 563a, 563a) at netbsd:dofilewrite+0x78
sys_write(9, 6e3bdd8, 6e3bdd0, 81c061ac, 6e3bf10, 200) at netbsd:sys_write+0x60
syscall(6e3bed0, 4, 0, 3, 400de5b8, 6e3bdd8) at netbsd:syscall+0xdc
?(0, 40058000, 563a, 0, 0, 0) at 0x1008cb8
db>




.mrg.