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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:47:21 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?
Message-ID:  <20041214064721.GI804@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20041213183518.N97507@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20041213190532.GA4781@meer.net> <20041213183518.N97507@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Mon, 2004-Dec-13 18:37:29 -0800, Doug White wrote:
>I in fact tested this on Saturday and it in fact rebooted.  With GENERIC,
>even. The digi driver sort of got left behind with the tty changes and
>handed out uninitialized mutexes that trip null pointer panics.  Machine
>came back up fine, so unless you have some type of panic that screws up
>the system enough to disrupt booting then it should work.

I missed the previous reference to digi(4).  Check out
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/72436
which includes a patch to fix this.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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