Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Patch for m68k architecture

>At 8:29 AM -0700 6/10/99, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>>This patch should enable 6.5 to build on Motorola 68000 architecture.  It
>>comes
>>from Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>.
>
>Has anyone compared the Linux/m68k patch with the NetBSD/m68k patch (which
>I believe was already included in 6.5)?

yes.

>Also I have been trying to cross-post some traffic on the
>port-mac68k@NetBSD.org list to the PG-ports list and it hasn't been
>appearing afaict.  Am I just not looking carefully enough or is something
>screwy?

I have tried 6.4beta4 on NetBSD 1.3.3/m68k. It failed while running
initdb:

Creating template database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1

FATAL: s_lock(001bbea3) at bufmgr.c:1992, stuck spinlock. Aborting.

FATAL: s_lock(001bbea3) at bufmgr.c:1992, stuck spinlock. Aborting.

Seems something really bad is going on...
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Tatsuo Ishii