Re: Stability of 2.0_RCx?

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:54:24 -0600, Josh Tolbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:19:32PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know since when this happens, I haven't run NetBSD/dreamcast for
> > some months.
> >
> > Now I want to update to an up-to-date 2.0RC version, but I get strange
> > reboots or hangs.
> >
> > Today the DC simply rebooted while it was unpacking a cross-compiled
> > base.tgz
> > (accessed over NFS).
> >
> > Last week I tried to build perl-5.8 from pkgsrc, but the DC either
> > stopped and was unresponsive or it rebooted w/o notice.
> >
> > It seems the DC port is quite broken currently, can I do something
> > to help getting it fixed?
> >
> > rgards,
> > chris
> 
> Wow...Someone posted to the list! :)
> 
> I haven't turned my Dreamcast on in more than a year. I should think about
> setting things up again one of these days. I was holding out for 2.0 to be
> released, but maybe it's worth testing out now.
> 
> Josh

Hey Josh, it's been a while.

Have you built a kernel recently? Check it out:

(andy@speedy)[/home/andy] > uname -a
NetBSD speedy.andy.com 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Dec  3
10:36:24 MST 2004 
[email protected]:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

2.0 seems to be tagged already, just not announced.

Andy