Netbsd10_beta evbarm aarch64 userland build failure

2023-09-10 Thread joelp
I'm trying to build a newly sync'd RockPro64 kernel and userland: ./build.sh -U -u -j6 -O ../obj -m evbarm -a aarch64 kernel=ROCKPRO64 distribution I can successfully build tools and the kernel (copied GENERIC64 to ROCKPRO64). Here's the error when I try a distribution build: obj ===>

re: Netbsd10_beta evbarm aarch64 userland build failure

2023-09-11 Thread joelp
Thanks .mgr for guidence here. Looks like I didn't correctly get latest updates on src. To test: I renamed current failed src and obj, to src.old and obj.old. I rsync'd latest (11-Sep) and did a tools, kernel, and release build; it succeeded and all good as you said. I took latest src with copy

Static IPv6, dhcpcd, and defaultroute6 issue

2023-11-05 Thread joelp
I want to configure a static IPv6 along with a DHCP IPv4 on my Rock64 running NetBSD10_beta. However, I'm not able to get the default route for IPv6 set on boot. Here are my interface specific dhcpcd.conf entries: interface awge0 noipv6rs static ip6_address=2001:x:x:x/64 Entries in rc.conf:

Re: Static IPv6, dhcpcd, and defaultroute6 issue

2023-11-05 Thread joelp
> This feels like a slightly odd way to do things. If you want a static > ip6, why don't you create ifconfig.awge and put in > > inet6 2001:x:x:x/64 > Agree, that was an odd way for me to do both DHCP IPv4 and static IPv6. This is simplicity winning again: An ifconfig.awge0 with static

Re: Request-for-recommendation

2024-02-20 Thread joelp
> > On my Windows machine, at least, I can get higher screen refresh rates > from the DP port than HDMI. > On that note, I found this Hackaday post useful: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/11/displayport-a-better-video-interface/

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-22 Thread joelp
> As another test you could "boot -a" the netbsd10 kernel and then point > it to a netbsd-10 installed USB or PCMCIA drive as a root filesystem. > While you probably already have everything after the boot pretty much > covered, it's always nice to see it come up and run completely from a >

Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-20 Thread joelp
. NetBSD 5.1.0_PATCH (ROCK) #5: Tue Dec 21 08:31:59 PST 2010 joelp@baker.westlab:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROCK total memory = 81660 KB avail memory = 75672 KB timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-20 Thread joelp
> Any chance that BIOS can do netboot? It's a long shot perhaps, > but I've owned several non-Intel machines of approximately that > vintage that I've successfully netbooted NetBSD onto, for > reasons similar to yours: the other possibilities required > no-longer-functioning hardware. > >

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-20 Thread joelp
> > I have been doing inplace upgrades on systems for years, almost entirely > successfully. My scripts are in pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage, which in > addition to etcmanage has BUILD-NetBSD and INSTALL-NetBSD. This will > seem like a lot, but I find once I'm set up, updating is very easy and >

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-20 Thread joelp
> Hi I would say to take to hard drive out and use some other computer to > install NetBSD 10 on it or use qemu. > to use qemu install the drive in a linux machine with the linux boot drive > and run "qemu-system-i386 -cpu pentium -m 64 -cdrom > NetBSD-10.0rc1-i386.iso -hda /dev/oldlaptopsdisk" >

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

2023-12-21 Thread joelp
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 4:07 AM wrote: >> >> > Hi I would say to take to hard drive out and use some other computer >> to >> > install NetBSD 10 on it or use qemu. >> > to use qemu install the drive in a linux machine with the linux boot >> drive >> > and run "qemu-system-i386 -cpu pentium -m