On Nov 15, 3:59am, tsut...@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/atari/stand/installboot
| christos@ wrote: | | > Well, the code should be functionally equivalent | | There were many examples "readability is better" for ancient ports. | | In most cases, geeks who knows the machines are not familiar | with NetBSD, and NetBSD geeks don't know the hardware behaivor. | | > and I doubt that anyone | > has ever tested the atari installboot in a little endian machine. Or the | > vax one on atari, which was the other bug that gcc found and could have | > never worked... | | Note sys/arch/atari/stand/installboot is not cross ready and just | a native binary (it's in my TODO list to add atari support into | MI installboot though). Fortunately installer floppy doesn't require | installboot. (bootstrap kernels are loaded by loadbsd.ttp for Atari TOS) | | > | I'm still trying to get atari booting with HAVE_GCC=48, | > | but there are still more problems... | > | (sysinst floppy overflow, sed(1) in the install floppy dumps core, etc) | > | > How can I help? Is there an emulator? | | pkgsrc/emulators/aranym can boot FALCON kernel and show boot messages | but it doesn't implement MFP timer required to run NetBSD/atari.. | | Anyway, it looks even with gcc45 sed(1) in atari's sysinst.fs dumps core. | | --- | erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C | [1] Broken pipe sysctl -n kern.root_partition | | Segmentation fault sed y/0123456789/abcdefghij/ | mount: cannot open `/dev/fd0': No such file or directory | Unable to mount /dev/fd0 read-write | erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C | | : | --- | | You can test it on tme by copying crunched "/usr/bin/sed" binary | from netbsd-7 atari's sysinst.fs.gz: | ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-7/201411140020Z/atari/installation/miniroot/sysinst.fs.gz | | "./sed y/0123456789/abcdefghij/" dumps core even on TME sun3 | (though the installer worked on NetBSD/atari 6.0 days). | Some libc changes trigger it? Crap, I trashed my sun3 tme. I will rebuild it.... christos