modules tutorial

2016-09-14 Thread Jan Danielsson
Hello, Is there something like http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/c147.htm but for NetBSD? /Jan

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-14 Thread Andrei M.
You know, despite all 7.0 has been a HUGE improvement performance-wise on my main laptop (it's the same one since 2010) compared to the 6.x series and whatever was before. I've just upgraded to 7.0.1, let's see how it works. 2016-09-14 18:17 GMT+03:00 : > I feel that for home users, -current may

Re: kernel load failure

2016-09-14 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:12:17AM -0500, Patrick Welche wrote: > I also tried tftp, and get stuck at the same value whether a kernel or > its compressed version is used - would that rule out the pxe boot side > of things? (FreeBSD iso served via its pxe boot from the same NetBSD > server also work

Re: kernel load failure

2016-09-14 Thread Patrick Welche
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 06:02:37PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:57:26AM -0500, Patrick Welche wrote: > > > 9872659+10907160+995816 [12773]=0x165da30 > > > > Thanks - do you know what those numbers refer to? (I get stuck in the > > first one) > > size /netbsd, those a

Re: kernel load failure

2016-09-14 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:57:26AM -0500, Patrick Welche wrote: > > 9872659+10907160+995816 [12773]=0x165da30 > > Thanks - do you know what those numbers refer to? (I get stuck in the > first one) size /netbsd, those are the bytes loaded so far for text and data (and the size of bss, which is not

Re: kernel load failure

2016-09-14 Thread Patrick Welche
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:52:55PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > Patrick Welche wrote: > > > pxeboot & INSTALL from > > > > > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.1/amd64/ > > > > > > behave in the same way, but stops at 12120088 > > For what it's worth, I have an automated testing

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-14 Thread coypu
I feel that for home users, -current may be a good choice. netbsd 7.0 is entirely unusable on much of my hardware. desktop was extra bad. no USB3 means USB keyboard interrupts are lost or something, need to boot with ACPI disabled (disables hyperthreading), cannot install from USB, lack of graphic

Re: kernel load failure

2016-09-14 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Patrick Welche wrote: > > pxeboot & INSTALL from > > > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.1/amd64/ > > > > behave in the same way, but stops at 12120088 For what it's worth, I have an automated testing setup that netboots -current kernels using the -current pxeboot, and it's working.