Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2023-12-21 14:35, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>>> That's just a GENERIC kernel? You can easily cross-build NetBSD on any
>>> Linux box and copy over the kernel to the NetBSD system. I usually
>>> just let it build on my CI host and fetch whatever I need from stored
>>> build artifacts. NetBSD will use the host compiler to build its
>>> internal toolchain (GCC 10 based) and use that to actually cross-build
>>> the release artifacts. Feel free to drop me patches, you'll get free
>>> compilation-as-a-service. :)
>>
>> As soon as I have completed my native build, I plan to start digging into the
>> whole time issue as well. It seems clear it's a problem not only on something
>> like simh, but on real hardware as well. So we might very well also have
>> multiple problems... Next week I will be able to fire up my real 4000/90, to
>> avoid any issues by simh.
>
> I suspect the 4000/90 will behave differently due to a different local
> time source: ICR vs DIAGTIM/U.
Very possible/probable. But I need to start somewhere, and I'm pretty
sure time is not kept right on my 4000/90 either.
Johnny
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