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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:55:10 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@io.yi.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new gensetdefs breaks booting
Message-ID:  <3A74953E.C0FA47CB@cup.hp.com>
References:  <20010128211046.10981BA8A@io.yi.org>

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Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > The new gensetdefs gives unbootable kernels on i386's.  They hang before
> > > printing anything.
> >
> > I verified that the output of gensetdefs.pl is identical to that of
> > gensetdefs(1). Does the kernel boot if gensetdefs(1) is used?
> >
> 
> Its not identical here, gensetdefs.pl uses .quad for the size of
> the linker set (?), which should be .long for x86.  Also, I'm not
> sure if the calculation for pointer size is correct, all the numbers
> seemed 3 times too big in setdefs.h.

Ok, thanks. The commit has been reverted for all platforms except ia64.
I think I messed up my testing, but may easily have committed the wrong
gensetdefs.pl. I'll check it out...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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