Re: Cnmagic support for wscons

2017-01-14 Thread Nathanial Sloss
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:37:58 Valery Ushakov wrote: > The PR doesn't really says why is this necessary? What's wrong with > just mapping KS_Cmd_Debugger? > > -uwe I read a email from current-users from sometime in 2012 entitled: How do I get into ddb after system is booted? So I decided to

Re: Cnmagic support for wscons

2017-01-14 Thread Valery Ushakov
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:08:43 +1100, Nathanial Sloss wrote: > Please see: > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/wscons.cnmagic.diff > > Also the original PR: > > http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=48360 > > The diff adds cnmagic support for wscons consoles. >

Cnmagic support for wscons

2017-01-14 Thread Nathanial Sloss
Hi, Please see: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/wscons.cnmagic.diff Also the original PR: http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=48360 The diff adds cnmagic support for wscons consoles. If there are no objections, I'd like to commit this within by the 20th of

Re: Fixed modular kernel path and different kernels

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Goyette
I've added this issue to the list, in src/doc/TODO.modules It's not the first time it has been discussed. On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, David Holland wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 04:53:50PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Perhaps there are other, even better solutions. My point is, we should >

Re: netbsd-7 XEN3PAE_DOM0 crash on agp

2017-01-14 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > In case it rings a bell for someone: Trying latest netbsd-7 XEN3PAE_DOM0 > build for i386, I get a reproductible crash when attaching agp: PR 50446 may be related. -- Andreas Gustafsson, g...@gson.org

Re: Fixed modular kernel path and different kernels

2017-01-14 Thread David Holland
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 04:53:50PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Perhaps there are other, even better solutions. My point is, we should > switch away from our current method. > > Am I overlooking something? No. It's the way it is because, mostly, of strident dogmatic insistence on the

Fixed modular kernel path and different kernels

2017-01-14 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! One issue that made me avoid modular kernels is that updating is finickier. When you switch from one modular kernel to another, you have to replace /netbsd and /stamd/amd64/${VERSION}/modules. So for example, when testing two different kernels of the same -current major version, you can not