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authorTobias Weingartner <weingart@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-04-11 19:21:51 +0000
committerTobias Weingartner <weingart@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-04-11 19:21:51 +0000
commit2912b3c09d90994ece1b93ebb855f0f03371737b (patch)
tree81cb7fe427f0157968ae3e04097bfca409392f31 /sys/arch/i386/stand
parentc445189844806eb7285eeb55a7b3502641606620 (diff)
Various comments
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-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/README16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
index 09b7d3c1cec..36c37aad734 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$OpenBSD: README,v 1.3 1997/04/07 01:20:08 weingart Exp $
+$OpenBSD: README,v 1.4 1997/04/11 19:21:50 weingart Exp $
Ok, just a couple quick pointers to people hacking on this stuff. These
@@ -73,3 +73,17 @@ be able to read the register dump.
Note, currently gzipped kernel do not work. Do not know the reason, we are
working on resolving that.
+
+Fri Apr 11 14:18:41 CDT 1997
+----------------------------
+
+Ok, yeah, the .gz kernel gets to the probe (and then cacks later due to
+no swap). Things should start working nicer from now on. The problem
+was with -DSAVE_MEMORY, I believe that the stuff in libsa/cread.c was
+not (and still is not with the define) being done right. I suspect
+the inflateInit2(), which had a parameter changed from -15 to -11.
+The problem manifested itself by loading a corrupted kernel. On the
+other hand, it checksumed ok though, so there might be a small bug in
+the libz stuff. Also, I don't understand libz, but I do know that
+things work withouth -DSAVE_MEMORY, and don't with it defined.
+