nouveau driver runs and crashes!

2015-10-12 Thread matthew green
hi folks. just a quick status update. those of you watching source-changes may notice that we recently got the nouveaudrm driver able to attach a text console. starting X crashes, but it's at a point you can either use the text console or help debug the crash :-) you'll need the very latest -c

daily CVS update output

2015-10-12 Thread NetBSD source update
Updating src tree: P src/doc/3RDPARTY P src/external/apache2/mDNSResponder/dist/mDNSPosix/mDNSPosix.c P src/external/apache2/mDNSResponder/dist/mDNSPosix/mDNSUNP.c P src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 P src/sys/external/bsd/drm2/dist/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c P src/sys/external/bsd/drm2/dist/drm/nouvea

Re: Debugging Epiphany/Midori (webkit-gtk based) on earmv6hf (RPI 2)

2015-10-12 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > There is also an alloca in libc: cvs/src/lib/libc/arch/arm/gen/alloca.S. Please completely ignore the existance of that file. It should never called as it can't work pretty much by definition of what alloca does. All code should be using t

daily CVS update output

2015-10-12 Thread NetBSD source update
Updating src tree: P src/external/mit/lua/dist/src/lobject.c P src/external/mit/lua/dist/src/lvm.c P src/sbin/swapctl/swapctl.c P src/share/misc/acronyms.comp P src/sys/arch/alpha/pci/cia.c P src/sys/arch/arm/pic/pic.c P src/sys/dev/acpi/acpi_mcfg.c P src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holida

Re: Ways to report trace when boot panics [Was NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot]

2015-10-12 Thread Robert Elz
First, I know I was a little overboard on the "RS232 is dead" theme, there are still uses for it, and it remains useful for its purpose. However, the time when *everything* had rs232 available has passed now, and it was that which made it attractive as an alternative console (boosted by many older

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot

2015-10-12 Thread Michael van Elst
jo...@britannica.bec.de (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes: >On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:21:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: >> ps: it would be interesting to know if there was any rational way to >> develop a NetBSD to NetBSD USB protocol that could maybe be used to >> replace serial consoles >You don't ne

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot

2015-10-12 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Paul Goyette wrote: > Of course you'd still need to manually transcribe the console display, > or take a pic for screen capture. Of course. I think we should encourage the latter option; it's less work for the user, less error prone, and likely to contain more information. -- Andreas Gustafsson,

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot

2015-10-12 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:21:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > ps: it would be interesting to know if there was any rational way to > develop a NetBSD to NetBSD USB protocol that could maybe be used to > replace serial consoles ... requiring just a cable to link 2 NetBSD > systems to each other - I

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot

2015-10-12 Thread Paul Goyette
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: Robert Elz wrote: If it is (as I believe is the case) failing to boot correctly, there is no operating system running to write files, no filesystems visible to write them, or crash dumps, to, nothing available but what appears on the console. The

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot

2015-10-12 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Robert Elz wrote: > If it is (as I believe is the case) failing to boot correctly, there > is no operating system running to write files, no filesystems visible > to write them, or crash dumps, to, nothing available but what appears on > the console. > > The traditional way to handle this was to s