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Matt Thomas | 2 Feb 2012 15:53

VAX kernel work again.

Note that the new rnd support exposed a gcc bug so to run -current since
the rnd changes went in, you will need to rebuild your toolchain.

From simh:

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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 5.99.63 (GENERIC)
MicroVAX 3800/3900
total memory = 65468 KB
avail memory = 59672 KB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: KA655, CVAX microcode rev 6 Firmware rev 83
lance at mainbus0 not configured
uba0 at mainbus0: Q22
dz1 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 304 ipl 17
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 5 model 3
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mscpbus0: couldn't attach drive (no free items)
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
mscpbus1 at uda0: version 3 model 3
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
mscpbus1: couldn't attach drive (no free items)
qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764 ipl 17: delqa, hardware address 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
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Dave McGuire | 2 Feb 2012 16:51

Re: VAX kernel work again.

On 02/02/2012 09:53 AM, Matt Thomas wrote:
> Note that the new rnd support exposed a gcc bug so to run -current since
> the rnd changes went in, you will need to rebuild your toolchain.

   This is fantastic news!  I'm finally getting stuff set up in my new 
building to actually run some big iron.  Actually I'll start off with 
"little iron" in the VAX context, but I'm eying that 11/750 over there.. B-)

   Thank you for working on this.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire | 2 Feb 2012 16:52

BI machines?


   I suppose I could just go look at the kernel sources, but...is there 
any support for BI-based machines in NetBSD?  I just got my hands on a 
beautiful 8350 system.

             -Dave

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Matt Thomas | 2 Feb 2012 19:35

Re: BI machines?


On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

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>  I suppose I could just go look at the kernel sources, but...is there any support for BI-based machines in
NetBSD?  I just got my hands on a beautiful 8350 system.

Yes BI boards are supported.

BTW, I would be surprised in the 8350 is faster UP than MP.
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Anders Magnusson | 2 Feb 2012 18:39
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Re: BI machines?

The 8350 once worked quite well, I wrote the SMP support on an 8354 :-)
I doubt it will work with more than one CPU now though.

The DEBNI is supported, also for netboot, and MSCP disk and tape 
adapters (cannot recall their name right now).

-- Ragge

On 02/02/2012 04:52 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>   I suppose I could just go look at the kernel sources, but...is there 
> any support for BI-based machines in NetBSD?  I just got my hands on a 
> beautiful 8350 system.
>
>             -Dave
>
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Anders Magnusson | 2 Feb 2012 21:22
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Re: BI machines?

On 02/02/2012 07:35 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>>   I suppose I could just go look at the kernel sources, but...is there any support for BI-based machines in
NetBSD?  I just got my hands on a beautiful 8350 system.
> Yes BI boards are supported.
>
> BTW, I would be surprised in the 8350 is faster UP than MP.
Well, IIRC it is, unless running two cpu-hogging programs at the same 
time :-)

// Ragge
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Dave McGuire | 2 Feb 2012 23:58

Re: BI machines?

On 02/02/2012 12:39 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> The 8350 once worked quite well, I wrote the SMP support on an 8354 :-)
> I doubt it will work with more than one CPU now though.

   Actually one of the processor boards is missing from my 8350, which I 
guess makes it an 8300.  I will have to find another one somewhere.

   Anybody in the US got any spare BI boards to resurrect a nice old system?

> The DEBNI is supported, also for netboot, and MSCP disk and tape
> adapters (cannot recall their name right now).

   Nice! (KDB50 yes?)

              -Dave

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John Klos | 11 Feb 2012 20:24

Reproducible crash

Hi,

In case anyone would be interested in fixing a reproducible system crash, 
you can find one by trying to compile pkgsrc/devel/sparsehash. If it was 
happening on a machine other than my bulk build machine, I'd check it out 
more myself.

John
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Anders Magnusson | 11 Feb 2012 21:44
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Re: Reproducible crash

On 02/11/2012 08:24 PM, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In case anyone would be interested in fixing a reproducible system 
> crash, you can find one by trying to compile pkgsrc/devel/sparsehash. 
> If it was happening on a machine other than my bulk build machine, I'd 
> check it out more myself.
>
Do you get a panic?

-- Ragge
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John Klos | 11 Feb 2012 22:58

Re: Reproducible crash

>> In case anyone would be interested in fixing a reproducible system crash, 
>> you can find one by trying to compile pkgsrc/devel/sparsehash. If it was 
>> happening on a machine other than my bulk build machine, I'd check it out 
>> more myself.
>> 
> Do you get a panic?

Yes. The machine reboots. Since I don't have the serial console attached 
to anything, I don't know what it said when it paniced and rebooted.

I can connect something and crash the system again. It's a VAXstation 
4000/90a running netbsd-5 from 25-January-2012.

Thanks,
John
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