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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:07:55 -0500
From:      Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_smp.c
Message-ID:  <20040312220755.GA11298@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20040312215636.GC46054@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200403122035.i2CKZMdp076683@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040312215636.GC46054@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:56:37PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:35:22PM -0800, Ken Smith wrote:
> > kensmith    2004/03/12 12:35:22 PST
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             subr_smp.c 
> >   Log:
> >   This is a temporary fix to solve a regression issue on sparc64 that
> >   is caused by the way sparc64 registers its CPUs.  Nate will work on
> >   a real fix shortly.
> 
> Is this likely to fix the panics at boot time I'm having on my Ultra 30?
> 

I'm not sure.  The symptom this was addressing is lack of a root
filesystem to mount, but on the machine I had it wasn't panic-ing.
It just dropped to a prompt asking what device from <this empty list>
I wanted to use for the root filesystem.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |



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