From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 28 00:39:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11078 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11072 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12704; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:38:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:38:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Simon Shapiro , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Install In-Reply-To: <16567.904263803@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The first thing to do is to build a FreeBSD kernel and test boot it. > > There are patches to current sources for this available at: > > > > http://www.freeebsd.org/~dfr/alpha-sys-diff-270898.gz > > Have you fixed the double-declarations in ioconf.c yet? I've built > the world from the most -current current sources on the alpha and > used these exact patches, but the resulting GENERIC kernel doesn't > quite build - it needs hand editing. > > Just curious. I have never seen this. Can you send me the ioconf.c which your config spits out and I will try to work out what is going on. > > Also, why don't we just commit these various diffs so they don't need > to be hand-applied? :) I'm committing things when I can. The kernel diffs are down to just a few device drivers. I can't test these drivers on i386 though so I am slightly wary of committing them. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message