Re: boot issue on NetBSD/vax 8.x and 9.x

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

ragge@ wrote:

> > I wrote:
> >
> >> So it has never worked on any VAXen with only 8 MB memory.
> >> Just changing the RELOC value to 0x7e0000 makes bootloader work again
> >> on my 8 MB VS3100/m30.
> > Ah, I was a bit stupid.
> > 0x7e0000 makes bootloader starts, but it fails on loading a kernel,
> > maybe due to lack of heap memory for FFS blocksize.
> >
> > With RELOC=0x7d0000 it can load at least 10.99.2 custom kernel:
> As you noted I moved the boot loader to just below 8M some years ago, 
> but I probably haven't tested it on a machine with only 8M of memory.
> So, go ahead with applying the fix :-)

Thanks, binutils 2.39 problem is addressed so I've committed the fix:
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2023/01/29/msg143063.html

I'll also send pullup request later.

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Izumi Tsutsui