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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: For those with persistant alpha trouble....
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Cool. How did you guess this?


On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> This appears to have fixed beast.freebsd.org:
> 
> Index: interrupt.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/alpha/alpha/interrupt.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.53
> diff -u -r1.53 interrupt.c
> --- interrupt.c	2001/06/04 00:52:09	1.53
> +++ interrupt.c	2001/07/14 11:56:37
> @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@
>  		    "alpha_dispatch_intr: disabling vector 0x%x", i->vector);
>  		ithd->it_disable(ithd->it_vector);
>  	}
> -	error = ithread_schedule(ithd, !cold);
> +	error = ithread_schedule(ithd, 0);
>  	KASSERT(error == 0, ("got an impossible stray interrupt"));
>  }
>  
> 
> 
> The other alpha I have access to right now (UP2000 - SMP 2x21264) doesn't
> seem to care either way - it seems to work ok.  beast.freebsd.org (Miata
> MX5 - PWS500au) absolutely will not build world without it.
> 
> I would be curious to know if this solves any other persistant crashing
> machines.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
> 
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