From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 0:26:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF2E37B424; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8G7QPG10931; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200009160726.e8G7QPG10931@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , John Baldwin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:26:25 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I think I had determined (I thought) that it was just loader itself, but I > could be wrong. The problem is that the loader is now too large, it cannot fit inside the ~208K window that boot1 has got available to it. peter@ashburton[12:14am]/home/obj/home/src/sys/boot/alpha/loader-130# nm loader.sym | sort | tail -1 000000002003e190 A end The VM space ends at 2004000. I can't find where, but I was pretty sure that the last 8K page was already spoken for and we've clobbered it. Was the pnp stuff added to the Alpha loader images? That is what probably tipped it over the edge. > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Ok, first thing I need to know is whether the problem is with .4th files > > or .c files. The changes to both are independent of each other, so: > > > > 1) Try the last working loader with the most recent forth/* files. > > 2) Try the most recent loader with the last working forth/* files. > > > > Hopefully, only one is broken. > > > > -- > > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > > dcs@newsguy.com > > dcs@freebsd.org > > capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net > > > > "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look > > like me." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message