hp700 small snapshot update
Matt Fredette <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi! I've been doing a little hp700 work lately. While I don't have a new snapshot, I do have a small update that should address the problems people were seeing with the last snapshot. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/fredette/hp700/hp700-update-20020905.tar.gz This tarball contains a new bootable LIF image, a new kernel, and a new /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so, to replace those in the 2002-07-06 snapshot. I've tested this on a 712/80, 715/50, and a 735/99. Highlights: - No more BTLB entry waste. The kernel used to run out of BTLB entries on a 712/80, which only has eight. - Better pmap memory usage. The pmap used to consume a gratuitous amount of memory for its data structures. - A workaround for a still-misunderstood cache behavior has been added to ld.elf_so. This lets dynamic executables work on a 735/99. - "ie0: receive descriptors out of sync" are now rare. They still happen, but not nearly as much as they did before. - On many machines that have them, the network transmit, network receive, and SCSI LEDs blink, and the load average is displayed on the "other" LEDs. -- Matt Fredette