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eddie at eight

On Tuesday, the NetBSD source tree got tagged with netbsd-8-0-RELEASE. The announcement is not out yet, but that's no reason not to move from -RC2 to -RELEASE on eddie, the Asus EeePC 1000H dedicated to bleeding edge things. So the netbook was seriously burning CPU cycles in the last two days, and welcome, 8.0!

Small things learned:

1. It's not necessary to build.sh the kernel modules explicitly, this is implied in the standard (userland) build.sh build. The build.sh installmodules=/ step is required, though.
2. For the tweaked "EDDIE" kernel, I had stale dependency files lying around going back to 2015. It helps to occasionally rm compile/EDDIE -- a make clean or make cleandir won't do the job.

While eddie was busily chugging along on the systems sources, I used the time and updated the "beeper" blog notes from Sunday with further findings on the (now) 8.0 system.