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Re: Introduction



On Jun 23, Evan Langlois wrote:
> I'm trying to get as much info together as I can.  The kernel boots on my
> machine .. but crashes in the ethernet driver once it mounts the filesystem.
> I think I know where to get the fix. I'm guessing the XFBDev X server may
> work if I can get it sort-of stable.  Then I can at least use the NeXT as an
> X Term.  A slightly slow one, but probably faster and better looking than the
> 256-color Indy sitting behind me.

The ethernet driver has some weird problems with the packet reception
code; if you change a few of the panics to warnings you'll get a
working ethernet driver (albeit one that occasionally rejects packets
that are good).  I don't remember the specifics now, but look around
at the packet length checking stuff.  I can provide a patch if needed.

A better job could be done by comparing the NetBSD and Linux drivers.
There are some DMA issues that the *BSD kernel handles but the Linux
driver ignores (hence the panics).


Chris, who ought to get off his butt and boot his NeXT (and do a
million other things too).



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