Re: NetBSD 10.0_RC1 on AlphaServer DS25... no boot

John Klos <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:02:28 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> The macro used to index the kernel L2 PTs to poke the value in them to 
>> point to the L3 PTs was overflowing from 1023->0 because it was 
>> designed to, and it probably just shouldn?t have been used in this one 
>> particular spot.  The fix is quite simple, and the comment explaining 
>> it is more complicated than the change :-)
>
> Ok, fix checked in and pull-up to netbsd-10 requested.  I successfully 
> booted a 16GB config in Qemu with the fix, whereas before it blew up at 
> 7GB.

Excellent, even if this specific dmesg URL should rightly be taken by a 
PowerPC:

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=7447

pkgsrc-2023Q4 builds will start soon. Thanks so very much, Jason!

John