Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:11:49 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, kib@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent versions of pxeboot hang/panic on AMD platform. Message-ID: <E1LkvN0-000HAw-5K@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20090320172726.GA95160@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20081121231400.GA94863@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20081121232325.GA15258@citylink.fud.org.nz> <20081121234104.GA95875@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <200903191104.48803.jhb@freebsd.org> <20090320172726.GA95160@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:04:48AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2008 6:41:04 pm Luigi Rizzo wrote: > ... > > > Assuming that the interrupt thing is a possible cause for the bug, > > > I can understand that the kernel size can affect the probability of > > > getting an interrupt at the wrong time. > > > > > > There was one bug due to memory overflow that i fixed in a recent > > > commit to head (see boot/common/interp.c), > > > but this only helped on a different amd64 motherboard. > > > > Is this now resolved with the latest pxeboot from HEAD? > > I can confirm that with today's code (20090320) both HEAD and RELENG_7 > produce a pxeboot that works reliably on the dual-core AMD CPU and motherboard > where previous loaders failed. > In my case, I have lost the serial port somehow, no console output, nor login, have to explore but hints could be useful. danny > thanks! > > luigi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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