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

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:44:39 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jul 17, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> 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”?
> 
> Preparing "cdhdtape" image (as alpha/installation/diskimage/
> in release dirs) was a possible way in the past.

Yah, that’s probably easiest.  I’m going to enable DDB in the INSTALL kernel in my local tree for debugging purposes.

-- thorpej