Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-26 Thread Steven McDonald
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Petr Salinger wrote: > What is your grub version ? > Please could you gunzip kernel image and send "readelf -l filename". > > The problem might be too big kernel, which can be handled only by > grub2 2.00-13 and above. See #699002, Aha, thanks. I instal

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-26 Thread Petr Salinger
I'm not sure if it's noteworthy, but I backported gcc-4.8 to wheezy rather than installing directly from jessie/sid, since we're using wheezy as a stable base internally. I'll continue to try different things and see if there is any change here. What is your grub version ? Please could you gunz

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-26 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi, On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Petr Salinger wrote: > I tried to use gcc-4.8 and current r250856 snapshot. > It builds and boots fine on my real hardware (kfreebsd-amd64). > The exact set of used patches is now in glibc-bsd SVN. I've built a kernel package from r250856 using the

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-22 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi Petr, On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Petr Salinger wrote: > I tried to use gcc-4.8 and current r250856 snapshot. > It builds and boots fine on my real hardware (kfreebsd-amd64). > The exact set of used patches is now in glibc-bsd SVN. Excellent, thanks for that. I've been busier t

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-21 Thread Petr Salinger
Hi. I tried to use gcc-4.8 and current r250856 snapshot. It builds and boots fine on my real hardware (kfreebsd-amd64). The exact set of used patches is now in glibc-bsd SVN. Petr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-12 Thread Steven McDonald
On Sun, 12 May 2013 18:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Petr Salinger wrote: > Does it fail/panic using all available gcc versions ? > I suggest to start test with gcc-4.3 from squeeze. > Does it fail/panic with different optimisation levels (-O2 -O1 -O0 > -Os) ? See i.e. #594288. Thanks, I hadn't considered

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-12 Thread Petr Salinger
Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be welcome. =) Does it fail/panic using all available gcc versions ? I suggest to start test with gcc-4.3 from squeeze. Does it fail/panic with different optimisation levels (-O2 -O1 -O0 -Os) ? See i.e. #594288. I expect, that some patches have to be u

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-12 Thread Steven McDonald
On Thu, 9 May 2013 00:33:00 +1000 Steven McDonald wrote: > I think this is ultimately not an efficient means of investigation to > pursue, so I plan to drop it and go back to trial and error -- I'll > add more and more of the responsible function definition until it > breaks, and then we can poin

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-08 Thread Steven McDonald
On Tue, 07 May 2013 22:15:07 +0200 Christoph Egger wrote: > FWIW I've been seeing this with gcc-4.6 gcc-4.7 and clang -- that's > the reason we still don't have a newer kfreebsd-10 upload in the > archive. Thank you for starting to dig! This is also the reason we > have no 9.1 in kfreebsd-9 at le

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-07 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi all! Steven McDonald writes: >> Which compiler did you build with? Still using gcc-4.6? > > Using gcc-4.6, yes. FWIW I've been seeing this with gcc-4.6 gcc-4.7 and clang -- that's the reason we still don't have a newer kfreebsd-10 upload in the archive. Thank you for starting to dig! This is

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-07 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi Steven, Thanks for the reply! On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:56:36 +0100 Steven Chamberlain wrote: > So the very last thing shown on-screen would be "Loading kernel of > FreeBSD ...", and is that still visible when the system hangs? I should have been a bit more descriptive here, sorry. GRUB output

Re: Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Steven, On 07/05/13 13:26, Steven McDonald wrote: > When I say "non-booting", there is literally no > output from the kernel at all after GRUB loads it. So the very last thing shown on-screen would be "Loading kernel of FreeBSD ...", and is that still visible when the system hangs? How are yo

Early boot failures with kFreeBSD >= 10.0~svn248992

2013-05-07 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi, I've been attempting to build newer kfreebsd-10 packages derived from the package currently in experimental. I'm able to build working kernel packages with orig tarballs up to and including r248991 with some changes to the patches and an additional one (which I intend to submit to the BTS lat