--- BasiliskII/INSTALL 1999/10/15 14:47:49 1.4 +++ BasiliskII/INSTALL 2000/07/13 17:45:50 1.5 @@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ BeOS: Basilisk II cannot do Mac Classic emulation. Unix: - You need X11R6, pthreads support and GNU make. To use the GUI preferences - editor, you also need GTK+ version 1.2 or better. On Linux, you need - glibc 2.0 or better. + You need X11R6 and a "make" utility with the VPATH feature (e.g. GNU make). + For serial, ethernet and audio support, you need pthreads. To use the GUI + preferences editor, you also need GTK+ version 1.2 or better. On Linux, you + need glibc 2.0 or better. AmigaOS: You need at least a 68020 and AmigaOS 3.0 or better. To get the GUI @@ -89,6 +90,44 @@ Unix: turns on massive interprocedural optimization, and makes for much better performance." + ATTENTION NetBSD/m68k USERS: + If you want to run Basilisk II natively (i.e. without CPU emulation), you + must NOT use a pthreads library. User-level threads libraries such as PTL + interfere with the signal handlers installed by Basilisk II and kernel- + level threads are not supported by NetBSD, so you will have to live without + pthreads (and thus, without serial/ethernet/audio support). + + ATTENTION NetBSD/mac68k USERS: + Current (as of July 2000) versions of the NetBSD/mac68k kernel have a bug + that not only prevents Basilisk II from running properly but seems to even + cause kernel panics under certain conditions! Apply the following patch to + /sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/macromasm.s, recompile and re-install the kernel + and reboot before using Basilisk II: + + --- macromasm.s.orig Wed Jul 5 19:29:01 2000 + +++ macromasm.s Wed Jul 5 19:12:34 2000 + @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ + + #include "opt_adb.h" + #include "assym.h" + +#include + +#include + + + /* Define this symbol as global with (v) value */ + @@ -437,8 +439,9 @@ + movw sp@(FR_HW + 4), d0 | retrieve status register + andw #PSL_S, d0 | supervisor state? + bne Lalnosup | branch if supervisor + - jbsr _mrg_aline_user | user a-line trap + - bra Lalrts + + addql #4, sp | pop frame ptr + + movql #T_ILLINST, d0 | user-mode fault + + jra _ASM_LABEL(fault) + Lalnosup: + #define FR_PC (FR_HW+2) + movl sp@(FR_PC + 4), a0 | retrieve PC + AmigaOS: If you have a binary distribution of Basilisk II for AmigaOS, there is an executable included. You must also have the "PrepareEmul" utility installed