If someone could supply me with a fresh -current GENERIC kernel that
includes support for the 4000/500, I'd appreciate it -- I'm trying to
get it running off a not quite new one, and am having problems with
local MSCP disk -- I'm running with an NFS root now, but would like to
see if a newer kernel fixes it for me.

Meanwhile, perhaps someone's got a hint regarding what happens when I
try to build a -current kernel myself, using the 1.5 binaries:

varg# make
sh ../../../../kern/genassym.sh cc  -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-main -mno-pic -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=8 -D_KERNEL  -D_VAX_INLINE_   < ../../../../arch/vax/vax/genassym.cf > assym.h.tmp &&  mv -f assym.h.tmp assym.h
In file included from /tmp/248.c:6:
../../../../sys/proc.h:411: syntax error before `__asm__'
../../../../sys/proc.h:414: syntax error before `__asm__'
../../../../sys/proc.h:428: syntax error before `__asm__'
cc -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp -D_LOCORE -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=8 -D_KERNEL  -D_VAX_INLINE_ -c ../../../../arch/vax/vax/intvec.s
cc -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp -D_LOCORE -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=8 -D_KERNEL  -D_VAX_INLINE_ -c ../../../../arch/vax/vax/subr.s
rm -f param.c
cp ../../../../conf/param.c .
cc  -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-main -mno-pic -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=8 -D_KERNEL  -D_VAX_INLINE_  -c param.c
In file included from param.c:52:
../../../../sys/proc.h:411: syntax error before `__asm__'
../../../../sys/proc.h:414: syntax error before `__asm__'
../../../../sys/proc.h:428: syntax error before `__asm__'
*** Error code 1

-tih
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