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Steven Hartland wrote:
> kernel conf was identical, I'm going to be building 6.2-RC2 ( current
> source on the machine ) with kernel debugging to see if I can break
> to the debugger when this happens.
> 
> It happens 99.9% of the time on boot just after initialising the
> Highpoint controller where the next step is to initialise the other
> CPU's it just hard locks :(

Tried adding GDB and DDB but I cant break to the debugger once its hung.
I'm going to try adding WITNESS and INVARIANTS but I dont hold much hope
that this will help. Anyone got any pointers on how to proceed beyond
this?

    Steve


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