Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:10:46 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@io.yi.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new gensetdefs breaks booting Message-ID: <20010128211046.10981BA8A@io.yi.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:01:03 PST." <3A74888F.E00F7161@cup.hp.com>
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> Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > The new gensetdefs gives unbootable kernels on i386's. They hang before > > printing anything. > > I verified that the output of gensetdefs.pl is identical to that of > gensetdefs(1). Does the kernel boot if gensetdefs(1) is used? > Its not identical here, gensetdefs.pl uses .quad for the size of the linker set (?), which should be .long for x86. Also, I'm not sure if the calculation for pointer size is correct, all the numbers seemed 3 times too big in setdefs.h. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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