Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:55:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does your Alpha run a SMPng kernel? Message-ID: <XFMail.001109185513.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <14859.23664.641868.642173@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 10-Nov-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > David O'Brien writes: > > There is some debate as to which machines can run the latest SMPng > > kernel so I'd like to take a poll. If you can, please CVSup and then > > build a GENERIC -current kernel and see if it boots. > > Depends on what you mean by latest. If you mean post-ithreads, then > I've booted the following with SMPng > > API UP1000 > Compaq XP1000 (I'd expect XP900/DS10/DS20/DP264 to also work) > DEC AlphaStation 500/266 > DEC DPW433a (Miata GL) > > As of last week, there were stil massive stability problems. > Eg, my Miata-GL cannot make it through an installworld w/o > locking up. (or at least couldn't last week). > Heck, it cannot even reinstall the linux_base port reliably. Have any clues as to where it is hanging? One thing that may help is that I have finally gotten the kernel cleaned up so that it can run with WITNESS enabled. In fact, I'm using an MP safe 'psm' driver with WITNESS enabled as I type this. Having WITNESS on will help find some deadlocks that may hang machines. I need to clean up the patches and untangle them from the 4-5 other patchsets on here and then test it on SMP x86 and alpha, but hopefully I can commit it next week some time. > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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