Re: NetBSD/virt68k live-image

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Feb 2025 08:52:04 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.m68k
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Feb 7, 2025, at 8:40 PM, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> As of NetBSD 11 it should at minimum be a great way to build packages quickly.
>> 
>> I?ve been able to cross-build the virt68k port on my M2 MacBook Air pretty easily and quickly, just FYI. It was the live-image support that got me excited about it. :)
> 
> It can help, but unfortunately it's not quite ready yet. We get "panic: enter: out of address space" with many packages such as erlang or php83.

The m68k pmap is still in desperate need of an overhaul (at least on 68040 machines).

-- thorpej