Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:00:36 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
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> On Jul 13, 2021, at 8:28 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 13, 2021, at 4:17 AM, Istvan Gyenes <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Unfortunately Jensen is not capable of net booting.
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> Alas, I had forgotten.
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> ANYWAY, I have a hunch about what might be happening.  I need to refresh my memory about the operating modes of the i8259 PIC.  Stay tuned...

Istvan — what’s your preferred “test kernel delivery mechanism”?  I fixed one obvious bug in the Jensen PIC code (I just went ahead and pushed that change in because it was pretty obvious), but I’m not 100% certain it’s the root cause of the problem we’re seeing.  I do have a couple of other ideas, but I’d like to see where things sit as-is.

Cheers!

-- thorpej