Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos

Jorge Acereda MaciĆ” <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:46:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Allen Briggs wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:18:44AM +0200, Jorge Acereda Maci? wrote:
> 
>>Maybe you have a theory on what's going on. When I copy a file, what I 
>>get on the NFS server is a file of the same size, but with chunks of 
>>zeros interleaved, that is:
>>
>>0x0000 <correct data>
>>0x1000 <zeros>
>>0x2000 <correct data>
>>0x3000 <zeros>
>>...
> 
> 
> It seems possible that OF_write() is not dumping the cache for the data
> that you're sending.  I haven't looked at the Openfirmware bindings to
> see if that says anything about it.

I've just put some printfs(), and with some help from tcpdump, it seems 
that the packets arriving with zeros at the server really were passed as 
zeros to OF_write().