Re: Testing requested for the next version of GNU Mach

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 06:27:24PM -0400, David Michael wrote:
> > The realtek board shouldn't be working without DDE... Something looks
> > wrong in your test setup.
> 
> I've been using it almost exclusively for the last three or four years
> without DDE.  It works fine for me until I try to change the IP
> address with fsysopts, then kernel panics ensue.

If you really built the kernel with --disable-rtl8139, it shouldn't be
working.

> After poking around a bit more, it seems that the space is eaten by
> debug info.  Appending -g0 to CFLAGS allowed gnumach to boot
> successfully and resulted in this:
> 
> vm_page: DMA: pages: 4080 (15M), free: 2053 (8M)
> 
> The difference may be because GRUB apparently passes the multiboot ELF
> info, while QEMU does not.  I'll just make sure to disable debug flags
> when building gnumach for the time being.

Yes that makes sense.

-- 
Richard Braun