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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: NetBSD on HP MicroServer
From:       christos () astron ! com (Christos Zoulas)
Date:       2011-08-30 10:49:54
Message-ID: j3if8i$7e7$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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In article <CABFsXQfM-Gsg8mre6xVAD1Xo5bTMgea0xZ+Dxjc2rmKnvMeURg@mail.gmail.com>,
Jörn Clausen  <joernc@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>A few days ago I got me a HP ProLiant MicroServer N36L. I have
>installed NetBSD 5.99.55, as 5.1 hangs during boot on the USB bus, and
>wouldn't recognize the NIC (when booted without ACPI to work around
>the first problem). As far as I can tell, 5.99.55 works nice and
>stable.
>
>Two things I noticed:
>
>1. I have attached a (cheap) USB keyboard to the machine. At first, it
>works, but after being idle for some time, I get this error on every
>keypress:
>
>ehci1: missed microframe, TT reset not implemented, hub might be inoperational
>ehci1: missed microframe, TT reset not implemented, hub might be inoperational
>ehci1: missed microframe, TT reset not implemented, hub might be inoperational
>
>Not a big deal, as the machine is usually headless.
>
>2. I have one old binary, probably compiled about the time NetBSD
>switched to ELF. Now I get on execution:
>
>/vol/local/bin/rcinfo: bad tag 1: [8 4, 0 4, 01.0  PaX]
>
>$ file /vol/local/bin/rcinfo
>/vol/local/bin/rcinfo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
>1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for NetBSD, stripped
>
>The binary works, but it gets executed in my .tcshrc, so it's a bit annoying.

This is a diagnostic message. If you compile a non DIAGNOSTIC kernel,
or comment out the printf it will go aways.

>And a question: I noticed that -current includes ZFS. Is this still
>the version from GSoC2009, that according to its description I
>wouldn't use for any real data? Is there active development?

Not much progress has been done with it.

christos

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