From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 15 11: 2:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B80737B4CF for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13w7p2-000IJI-00; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:02:16 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAF75sc02804; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:05:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:05:54 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on Tlaser Message-ID: <20001115080554.A2707@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:40:50AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:40:50AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > failed to send Read to dkb0.0.0.6.0 > > device dkb0.0.0.6.0 no longer valid > > Yatta..... Rather: Yikes.. > > Booting a pre-installed 4.2-beta is not successful either. > > > > [handwritten transcript from console] > > .. boot succeeds ok... > > dwlpx0 (DWLPA PCI at kft0 hose0) > > base = 0xb80000000 > > mask = 0xf80000000 > > hacked = 0xb80000000 > > panic: hose encoding hack would clobber base address > > > > This is the hacked multi-pci bus stuff which didn't get backported > to 4.X because it depended on too much else. > > I should note that 4.2 works fine for me (I haven't cut a CD though) on > the Tlaser's at NASA/Ames. This has to do with whether a PCI implementation > leaves enough bits at the top of 32 bits for us to store a hose number > (dwlpx instance in this case). > > Sadness. I always knew this was a risk, but hoped we'd squeak by. Ah, this was mentioned to me before, but I never saw it in real life. Our Tlaser is not around long enough in our lab for me to have seen it before. > So, basically, a large number of alphas will not work in 4.X because of the > boot issues (which nobody really understands) and the hose stuff. Crap. Yep. There are quite some 'red' machine types on www.freebsd.org/~wilko I guess machines like ES40 , DS20 would require this to be straightened out as well? W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message