From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 10 11:56:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06983 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA06970 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03244 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:07:56 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA06131; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:24:10 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901101824.TAA06131@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: porting to EB64+ / Alpine In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Jan 10, 99 12:01:43 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:24:10 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Doug Rabson wrote... > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Doug Rabson wrote... [snip] > > Somewhat related question: I would appreciate the output of SHOW CONF > > of a genuine EB64+. My Aspen Alpine is different enough to make this > > interesting. > > I imagine that SRM had enabled a few pci interrupts for booting and this > is what was interrupting. Most of the platform code (e.g. > dec_st550.c) disables all the interrupts that it doesn't know about to > avoid this. The Alpine is running now. But I have a strange phenomenon during boot. The system once booted is stable as far as I can see (will hammer on it tonite). But: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: ncr0: rev 0x01 int a irq 7 on pci0.5.0 de0: rev 0x23 int a irq 0 on pci0.6.0 de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 /dev/rda1e: 25123 files, 521572 used, 281649 free (40825 frags, 30103 blocks, 5.1% fragmentation) Doing initial network setup: hostname. de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.200.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.200.255 ether 00:00:f8:20:7f:45 media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active supported media: autoselect 10base5/AUI manual 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 add ne Notice the odd output after the fsck line. This is exactly what I get on the console, it seems the CR is missing. Really weird. Anybody seen this before? And a related problem: on _some_ system boots I get a 'stuttering' output. So, the bootmessages appear in fragments, about 1 fragment a second. And in the end the whole thing hangs multiple times for 20-30 seconds, before printing the console login: In the end it gets to login: It seems that this happens if I halt FreeBSD, and then do a boot from the SRM _without_ hitting the reset button first. It looks like if something needs to get whacked on the head first, something a reset apparantly provides. I suspect this has something to do with interrupt handling. Suggestions are as always welcome. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message