Re: current won't boot on real 4000/60

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:18:21 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Apr 29, 2026, at 2:27=E2=80=AFAM, Jan-Benedict Glaw =
<[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, 2026-04-27 17:57:57 -0700, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>> On Apr 27, 2026, at 5:37=E2=80=AFPM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> ANYWAYS=E2=80=A6 I have a fix for it that he=E2=80=99s planning to =
test later this evening.  I=E2=80=99ll check it in as soon as I get =
confirmation.
>>>=20
>>> Oooops, forgot a link to the patch:
>>>=20
>>>   https://www.netbsd.org/~thorpej/vax-vmem-fix.txt
>>=20
>> Hahaha, and of course after I send it I realize there=E2=80=99s a bug =
in this one, too.  Actually the old extent-based code had a bug as well, =
but it was unlikely to be encountered.
>>=20
>>    https://www.netbsd.org/~thorpej/vax-vmem-fix-2.txt
>=20
> Confirmed in Open-SIMH vaxstation4000m60. (So the next steps are to
> add the missing CD-ROM SCSI commands to make the simulated CD-ROM
> drive useful for installation.)

Great I=E2=80=99ll check it in now.  Sorry for the trouble with the =
original change!

-- thorpej