From 2912b3c09d90994ece1b93ebb855f0f03371737b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Weingartner Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:21:51 +0000 Subject: Various comments --- sys/arch/i386/stand/README | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand') 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. + -- cgit v1.2.3