Re: NetBSD/vax

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>]

Den 2020-03-22 kl. 22:50, skrev Dave McGuire:
> On 3/22/20 5:08 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > > I have a fast system already setup for cross-compiling netbsd and I can
> > > > netboot the vaxstation easily, I will try the patch in a few hours,
> > > > maybe less, right now I'm also trying to resurrect the power supply of
> > > > my 3100m76 so I can test it on another system with the ncr 5380
> > > > controller
> > > > Will report ASAP.
> > > Got the vaxstation 3100m76 up and running, with a standard netbsd-9 or
> > > -current kernel it has the same kernel panic when probing the scsi bus,
> > > with the patch everything is fine and not only the system will boot
> > > without problem but was able to complete an installation of netbsd-9,
> > > standard installation with sysinst, no manual intervention required, the
> > > system is working good.
> > Great!  Thanks for your help!
> > > I'm tempeted to try on my microvax 3100m30 (ka45) and also on a
> > > vaxstation 2000 (ka410), to see if this two system is also affected by
> > > that bug.
> > The m30 is affected, but the VS2k have a different SCSI chip so it is
> > not affected.
>    Huh?  The VS2000/MV2000 have an NCR 5380.
D'oh!  Of course it has!  I'll blame the lack of coffee.  Sorry for the 
misinformation.

-- R