Brad Parker wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:Don't bother. 5.0 is broken enough that it don't boot at all on our 8650, and when I tried it on my 4000/90 it just hangs after running build.sh a day or two.I just grabbed the latest 5.0 beta snapshot and it built the vax kernel cleanly (posix build, using ubuntu 8.10 linux). I was planning on patching it for the 730 and submitting patches; is this the right place to post them? I suppose building cleanly is not sufficient :-) I'll try and run it on a simh 780 in a minute.
I believe it runs fine (ie. boots) on a simh 11/780. Unfortunately that's not good enough, since I've tried it on the actual 8650 hardware. But if simh is good enough for you...
However, the second problem I mention is something most people don't even bother testing. That is - build natively. Or do any kind of extensive load tests. Since then the system just hangs after some time. It's a bug somewhere in the kernel, but it takes a little time to expose it.
Like I said, it took over a day on my 4000/90.
Johnny