Re: 1.6 vm_fault on ie packet rx

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:04:43PM -0500, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> > it would be easier to just use an NFS root rather than mess with a ramdisk,
> > if you can do that...
> 
> ...except it's the ethernet driver that's panicing the system to begin with.

well, that means that you can get information about the problem, right?


> Building the ramdisk pieces in distrib/ seems strightforward except the
> Makefiles all seem to need dozens of env vars that only get set if you build
> release from the top of the tree. For now I'll see if I can reproduce on
> GENERIC (James Wiley says the problem doesn't exist on GENERIC) and if not I
> guess I'll try building release. Any suggestions on getting the ramdisk
> image built without having to build the rest of the world?
> 
> --Adam

the distrib tree probably depends on various libraries and such from
the earlier parts of the build.  it's easiest just to cross-build
the release from a fast pc.

-Chuck