From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 23:14:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E9516A4CE; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:14:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACCE43D2F; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:14:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5LNElkg012462; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:14:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5LNElDm012461; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:14:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:14:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garance A Drosehn Message-ID: <20040621231446.GA12360@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040616161217.GA57659@dragon.nuxi.com> <97880ae0406191546208772a8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <97880ae0406191546208772a8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Thomas Moestl cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** DO NOT UPDATE and 'make world' YOUR SPARCS X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:14:50 -0000 On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:46:41PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > I've hit an issue that I suspect can render your machine useless if you > > install a new binutils. > > > > I suggest not installing a new userland world until you see the "ALL > > CLEAR". > > So, is it safe to do a new buildworld/installworld after the fixes > that were recently committed by Thomas? It was safe to do a new buildworld/installworld after I committed the patch to work around the issue on 2004-06-19. Thomas's commit did not change the state of "safeness", but allowed me to later remove the work around. > I "rushed" (*) a sparc64 > buildworld together as soon as I saw that commit, but the new kernel > panic'ed when I tried to boot into it. So, I didn't even get far > enough to install the new userland. This is not a problem I saw with the unpatched Binutils. You probably have another bug causing the panic. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)