From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 13 16:17: 6 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D72D37B40D; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7DNH0I58786; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: John Baldwin Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c mp_machdep.c vm_ma In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010813161438.Q63778-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 13-Aug-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > More correct? Thanks for talking with me about it first. > > *sigh* I thought I had said something when I replied to the initial commit, > but looking back at the archives I didn't say anything specific to IPI_HALT. > The short version is that with IPI_HALT the 4100 here at work always hung. You never reported this to me at all. I never saw the problem here. > When I tried to add in a handshake to transfer things over to the boot cpu to > fix that I found that every shutdown resulted in a reboot, even shutdown -h, > which resulted in discovering the bug in prom_halt() (After which I pulled out > the brown book and hunted down the section I mentioned to verify.) I can back > this out if you prefer. I should have said something earlier however, or at > least ran the patch by you first. I do very much appreciate the work you went to track this down. Good hunting. But for me, this is the final straw about working closely with FreeBSD-alpha, and pretty darned close to it for FreeBSD in general. What little I *do* get done is not nearly as good as it should be, and the lack of communication has just made it far too unpleasant for me to be involved. S'long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message