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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:12:10 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, kan@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Borked loader
Message-ID:  <20021104131210.A28067@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com>; from ru@freebsd.org on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM %2B0200
References:  <20021104053230.GA75624@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> <20021104063526.A25514@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com>

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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:35:26AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:32:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > I'm trying to upgrade a 6-month old -stable on an AlphaServer 400 to
> > > -stable from yesterday but the new /boot/loader dies.  I've looked at
> > > changes since then but nothing seems to affect the loader.
> > > 
> > > The new world was cross-built on a x86 box.  This is the first time
> > > I've done that, so it could theoretically be a problem with cross-
> > > building but I'd need another day to build world on as AS400.  I've
> > > repeated the cross-build and got a /boot/loader that is identical
> > > apart from the build time.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > IIRC x-building on x86 for alpha has been giving loader problems before.
> > ru@ has been using my DS10 for some testing but I don't recall if
> > it was fixed.
> > 
> > Ruslan, any suggestions?
> > 
> No, I've been looking at different things at the time -- cross-compiling
> i386 on either Alpha or sparc64 doesn't work due to some issues with GCC
> configured to cross-build i386 (it sometimes produces different asm code
> than native compiler).  I've reported this on current@ several times but
> our GCC maintainers indicated no interest to look into this.  :-(

Ah, at least good to know my memory still works OK ;)

Maybe our new gcc maintainer Alexander Kabaev (kan@freebsd.org) has more 
time than David? Might be worth asking.

Wilko

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