Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:55:27 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 on Alpha Message-ID: <20040829145526.GF23120@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.58-Blink.0408291140270.10811@tea.blinkenlights.nl> References: <xzp8yc3wllz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <xzpy8k07ffy.fsf@dwp.des.no> <Pine.SOL.4.58-Blink.0408291140270.10811@tea.blinkenlights.nl>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:45:30AM +0200, Sten Spans wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>
> > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) writes:
> > > PWS 600au, yesterday's sources. The new loader runs fine, but the new
> > > kernel won't boot with either the old or the new loader.
> >
> > For good measure, I tested a freshly-built GENERIC kernel as well. It
> > just hangs:
> >
> > > OK boot GENERIC -s
> > > /boot/GENERIC/kernel data=0x54cd70+0x4d140 syms=[0x8+0x62bb0+0x8+0x519c5]
> > > Entering /boot/GENERIC/kernel at 0xfffffc0000347050...
> >
> > No "unexpected exception/interrupt", I had to power-cycle the box.
>
> I experienced the same sympthoms when installkernel gave me a
> new kernel, but no device.hints, which is required for the new
> serial console code in 5.3.
>
> You're probably fighting different daemons, but letting people
> know that they need device.hinsts on alpha to get 5.3 booting
> properly would be handy.
>
> It's on the mailinglist now for starters :).
>
You probably mean that you forgot to update your /boot/device.hints,
because the existence of /boot/device.hints is already checked by
the kernel-install ("installkernel" in the src/Makefile spelling)
target:
: if [ ! -f /boot/device.hints ] ; then echo "You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first." ; exit 1 ; fi
: if [ x"`grep device.hints /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf`" = "x" ]; then echo "You must activate /boot/device.hints in loader.conf." ; exit 1 ; fi
This is, by the way, is covered by the 20040710 UPDATING entry:
: The console initialization on Alpha has been reworked and is now
: identical to other platforms. This means that the hardcoding of
: the serial console and the debug port has been removed. As such,
: hints are now required for the sio(4) driver to become a console
: or debug port. The NO_SIO option has been decommissioned because
: of this.
I don't use mergemaster(8) personally, I use the old way of
updating /etc and other stuff:
cd /usr/src/etc
dir=/var/tmp/`date +%Y%m%d`
mkdir -p $dir
make distrib-dirs distribution DESTDIR=$dir
and merging manually, using diff(1) with the saved output from
the previous such run.
But I specifically made the "distribution" target in
src/etc/Makefile install the device.hints file, in a hope that
mergemaster(8) will pick it up. Is it not the case?
: revision 1.326
: date: 2004/03/14 17:18:39; author: ru; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3
: I believe most of /boot/device.hints out there are based (if not
: identical) on GENERIC.hints, hence the following change:
:
: Moved the creation of /boot/device.hints where it belongs. This
: should aid in merging GENERIC.hints changes to /boot/device.hints,
: using mergemaster(8) or a similar approach.
Ah, it looks like mergemaster(8) only cares about updating /etc,
which is bad. :-(
This means that the following files will never be updated by
mergemaster(8):
/COPYRIGHT
/boot/device.hints
/root/.cshrc
/root/.k5login
/root/.login
/root/.profile
Doug, can you fix mergemaster(8) to care about updating at
least /COPYRIGHT, /boot, and /root? That would be very handy.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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