Testing a -current kernel

Would anyone here be able to test a patch (to make -current buildable) or
a precompiled kernel on real hardware?

Martin

intallation ramdisk problem on NetBSD/atari

Has anyone recently tried installation using a kernel booted from TOS
and sysinst.fs ramdisk image loaded from floppy?

NetBSD/atari has used "ramdisk image auto-loaded from floppy on open,"
but nowadays md(4) is dynamically configured on open
so we no longer can specify md[012] for a root device by default
because they are not configured at mountroot().

The attached patch is a dirty hack for atari's traditional installation
(until it will get ustarfs based bootable floppies?),
but is there any better workaround for forthcoming 6.0 release?

Thanks,

Index: atari/autoconf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/atari/atari/autoconf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -p -r1.61 autoconf.c
--- atari/autoconf.c	5 Jun 2011 17:09:18 -0000	1.61
+++ atari/autoconf.c	28 Jun 2012 15:55:05 -0000
 <at>  <at>  -33,6 +33,8  <at>  <at> 
 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
 __KERNEL_RCSID(0, "$NetBSD: autoconf.c,v 1.61 2011/06/05 17:09:18 matt Exp $");

+#include "opt_md.h"
+
 #include <sys/param.h>
 #include <sys/systm.h>
 #include <sys/reboot.h>

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Bootstrapping ARAnyM with NetBSD

Hi,

Since I don't have any real Atari hardware, I figured I'd play around with 
ARAnyM. However, I can't seem to get my head around what's missing. I've 
created a PC-DOS disk image onto which I've copied netbsd-ATARITT.gz (as 
netbsd.gz) and loadbsd.ttp (from netbsd-6 from 18-March-2012). I launch 
ARAnyM, double click the A: drive (oh, how it reminds me of CP/M!), double 
click loadbsd.ttp, then type -b netbsd.gz, but then ARAnyM just crashes.

Ideally, a bootable install disk image which can be used directly with 
ARAnyM would be great. I'll be happy to make one when I can get things 
running.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
John Klos

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Atari TT installation failed on installboot

Hi all,

I'm using a single AHDI configured SCSI disk and a single NetBSD (NBD)
partition on that disk, which as far as HDDRIVER is concerned it's
partition I:

Now, using disklabel I've configued sd0a to be the location of partition
I: start/end cylinders and disklabel and newfs complete successfully,
but then comes "installboot". I'm not sure why this is trying to install
any boot blocks as I didn't configure that I wanted a kernel installing.

What happens is....

Status: Running
Command: /usr/mdec/installboot -v /dev/rsd0c

-----------------------------------------------------
installboot: Cannot stat /netbsd, no bootversion check done
installboot: /dev/rsd0c: NetBSD boot block not on primary AHDI partition.

And the installation re-starts.

So, I moved /usr/mdec/installboot out of the way and created a new one
which just had "#!/bin/sh" inside it so it becomes a no-op command. This
works, and I'm allowed to continue the installation.

Alan.

Samba and low memory on NetBSD/atari

I recently got up and running with Samba 3.5.6.  (Previously I had been using 3.0)  Unfortunately on 3.5.6,
both smbd and winbindd fail to start:

eval: /usr/pkg/sbin/smbd: not enough memory
eval: /usr/pkg/sbin/winbindd: not enough memory

I have 16MB of physical memory and 256MB of swap.  Anyone know an easy way to determine if the issue with Samba
might be resolved simply by increasing available swap space?  I imagine this may not be the case if the
allocation that is failing really wants a large chunk of contiguous and/or physical memory.  Any other
tips that may help smbd/winbindd load?

Next time I do an install I'll try increasing swap and perhaps building everything with -Os rather than -O2.

David Ross
dross <at> pobox.com
  		 	   		  

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Incremental 5.1 binary packages uploaded

Hi, all,

Since m68k, VAX, mips, and StrongARM are slightly more modest CPUs than 
PowerPC, i386, amd64, and other faster processors, I've been incrementally 
uploading the results of a buld package build rather than wait for the 
very end (which could be up to a year from now).

In ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD, you'll find:

vax/5.1_2010Q3/   	262 packages
m68k/5.1_2010Q3/   	1398 packages
mipsel/5.1_2010Q3/   	1944 packages
arm/5.1_2010Q3/   	3425 packages

Note that in the interest of expediency some of these packages may be left 
over from a previous tag, but all were built with 5.1 (5.1_RC3, 5.1, or 
5.1_STABLE).

Please let me know of any issues, and enjoy!

John Klos

Aranym

Hello,

as I've read somewhere (this list or m68k) you've got a little trouble
to test m68k/atari ports due to failing hardware, did you try Aranym?
It's full-featured 68040 Atari-based virtual machine, with MMU and
everything (boots Linux/m68k with no problem), it even offers direct
bootstrapping without TOS image present! I tried it yesterday, but
kernel hangs on keyboard handler or so (I can take a picture if you
want).

In your opinion, it's much work to do? I also want to try Falcon +
CT60 with NetBSD, I'm really curious if it really works ;) I remember
some years ago I tried NetBSD kernel on plain Falcon but with no
success (IDE issues). Julian promised to make some fixes but probably
never got to it.

--

-- 
MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
http://mikro.atari.org

EtherNEC on NetBSD/atari now works!

I wrote:

> Yesterday I finished building the SMC_TT1 VME-ISA bridge circuit.
> Today I've written MD attachment code of MI we(4) driver for NetBSD/atari,
> and now it works fine. Yay!

As a next project, I have also built EtherNEC board and adapter
http://hardware.atari.org/ether/
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/ethernec/EtherNEC.jpg
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/ethernec/EtherNEC-adapter.jpg
and written a driver for it.

Now it works charm on my TT030!

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NetBSD 5.99.24 (ATARITT) #130: Mon Mar 29 23:39:41 JST 2010
	tsutsui <at> mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/atari/compile/ATARITT
Atari TT (m68030 CPU/MMU mc68882 FPU)
total memory = 69632 KB
avail memory = 65088 KB
mainbus0 (root)

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