Subject: Re: CG4 on 3/80 works
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: J. Maynard Gelinas <maynard@jmg.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 06/15/1998 17:58:06
    Gordon,
    I've compiled one of the stable kernels (which does work) and downloaded
one of the tar files from -current (the ones that aren't current) and note that
this revision of the source tree compiles but doesn't work as well.  This time
I'm getting a freeze right after rc calls newaliases to build the mail alias
database.  This has me convinced that since I _can_ compile a working kernel
there must be something pretty brain damaged with ksrc-current,at least as far
as sun3x arch is concerned.

    BTW: if you've got a working kernel with the new cg4 drivers, could I get a
src tar file, or even a binary?  I just want to see X work on this thing in
color. 

Hope this helps!  :-)
J. Maynard Gelinas

> > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:51:49 -0300
> > From: "J. Maynard Gelinas" <maynard@jmg.com>
> > 
> >    Gordon, I sup'd up ksrc last night and have twice attempted to compile a
> > working kernel to no avail.  The compilation completes just fine but when I
> > boot the new kernel it gets up to 'setting tty flags' and then I get a
> > 'watchdog reset!' and the system freezes (can't even L1-A the box). 
> 
> Ouch! Probably a stack overflow.  No idea why...
> 
> > My last sup was so long ago that I decided to just grab the whole tree;
> > think it was a sup -adevz supfile, seemed like the right thing to do.
> > Are you running -current from last night?
> 
> I only "sync" up with current once a week or so, and sometimes
> less often.  (Actually I didn't touch a computer all weekend!:)
> 
> I'll give current a try sometime this week...