From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 21 10:42:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07199 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07194 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01227; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Doug Rabson cc: "Brent J. Nordquist" , John Birrell , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha make buildworld stops at groff In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:22:53 BST." Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:41:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1223.903721282@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Since the kernel is still changing fairly rapidly, you must be able > to build your own kernels. You can get patches to the -current kernel > sources for this in http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr. The latest is > alpha-sys-diff-200898.gz. I managed to do this last night, modulo an edit to ioconf.c that was necessary to get it to compile (several tables were double-defined), and was well chuffed to see my very first alpha kernel compile and link! Then it blew up before probing the ISA devices, like the one you sent me. :-) I've finally got a suitable cable for a serial console - does all of that work the same way on the ALPHA? And how do you get the thing to drop into gdb-remote mode when it falls over this quickly? There's no chance to get into the debugger pre-emptively to type "gdb" for the next trap. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message