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Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)




To: AGC <agcarver+netbsd%acarver.net@localhost>

Subject: Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)

From: David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>

Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:30:48 +0100


On 1 July 2012 19:30, AGC <agcarver+netbsd%acarver.net@localhost> wrote:
>> It looks like the code was updated to new prototypes from  __P()
>> between netbsd-3 and netbsd-4, which introduced a lot of probably
>> irrelevant changes, but promlib.c was also moved around and there are
>> a fair number of changes in stand/ofwboot.
>>
>> Obviously this needs access to real hardware. I'm happy to help
>> someone with such hardware either setup a test build environment or
>> generate test binaries :)
>>
>> So, anyone with such a machine have some time to spare?
>
> If I can find my other spare CD drive I'd be happy to try this out on my
> v2.4 IPX.  It's not doing anything right now as it's waiting for an OS that
> will let me compile more recent programs. :)

Excellent :)

Does the IPX boot from CD-RW media? If not, and you don't want to burn
a CD for each test then an alternative might be a NetBSD-3 CD to get
the system booted, and into a position to write boot blocks to a scsi
disk for each test :)


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References:

Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
From: Dan Oglesby

Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
From: AGC

Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
From: Georg Brein

Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
From: David Brownlee

Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
From: AGC




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