From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 13:16:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66AB16A40F for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:16:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B37913C455 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A7372.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.115.114]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l03CsQkY018094; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:54:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l03CsPPv074926; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:54:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l03CsPSF082168; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:54:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200701031254.l03CsPSF082168@fire.jhs.private> To: "Steven Hartland" In-reply-to: <007501c72f28$af27ffe0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <007501c72f28$af27ffe0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Comments: In-reply-to "Steven Hartland" message dated "Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:16:52 +0000." Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:54:25 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP initialisation changes 6.1-PRERELEASE and 6.1-RELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:16:16 -0000 "Steven Hartland" wrote: > Is anyone aware of any significant changes between 6.1-PRERELEASE > and 6.1-RELEASE which could cause and SMP kernel to hang when > initialising the CPU's? > > I have a Tyan s2892 based machine here which has been running > 6.1-PRELEASE happily for months, I finally got round to updating > to 6.1-RELEASE and it now just hangs. I've also tried 6.2-RC2 > and the same high happens with that. > > Also of note is that since updating to the latest BIOS on said > machine 2.03 from 2.0 I'm constantly seeing: > "calcru: runtime went backwards" messages from all processes > including idle. > > Steve If you have old bins & kernel & src/, or spare old boot partition, or another 6.1-PRERELEASE host to cross compile from: also worth building another 6.1-PRERELEASE kernel, to see its perhaps a build system or hardware problem ? Or a loader.conf or kernel conf before that disabled dual maybe, & got swept away in upgrade ? > This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and Entire World. Archived. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software