Re: Stability of 2.0_RCx?

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?

I'm seeing the same, however not on 2.0 but on current.  To be
honest, I've been experiencing this since I've first started
running NetBSD on my Dreamcast.  I never really cared all too
much about it, but it actually is annoying if you can't even
compile larger packages.

I also use a LAN adapter, ifconfig reports "media: Ethernet manual".
My setup runs everything via NFS, with swap being on a swapfile
on one of the NFS partitions.  I'm currently running a current
system from ~Nov 10.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of debugging NetBSD - can
anybody tell me what I have to do to get a serial console on my
Dreamcast?  Does it require support of some kind from dcload-ip,
or is all that's required some setting up of NetBSD, e.g. some
kind of option in the kernel configfile?  Configuring the other
side of the serial link (the "client") shouldn't be a problem,
it's just the Dreamcast that I've got problems with.


bye,
  Harold