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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:51:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Tom Ponsford <tponsford@theriver.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Same problem, new year 2100A machine check
Message-ID:  <16407.48711.708178.207673@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4015BB97.70209@theriver.com>
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Tom Ponsford writes:

 > > 1) Build a kernel with ddb and get a stack trace.
 > > When the machine crashes and you land at the "db>" prompt, type 'tr'
 > 
 > I think I did that once before for this list, I think it was a year or so ago. 
 > Here is the backtrace I posted: It was for then 5.0 current
 > a smp and uniprocessor kernel did exactly the same thing.

I seem to vaguely remember a thread like this fizzling out a long time
ago.  I think the trap is happening at a slightly different place.
(well after eisab0 in the 5.0 trace).

 > I will build a new 5.2 debug kernel though:

That would be best.

 > 
 > I'll have to dig up an alpha that I can spare thats not running on my VMS lan, 
 > so It might be a week or two before I can get a new 5.2 backtrace..

I'm in no rush.

<..>

 > Thanks for all the help!!
 > 

No problem..  But I haven't been much help at all.

FWIW, having written the 2100 support, I think I'm free to say that
2100 series is totally evil, and you'd be better off using it as a
boat anchor, a fish tank, or in some other non-computational capacity...

Drew



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