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On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:36, Andrew Bresticker wrote:

>=20
>> When the clock ran out Andrew was trying to debug some odd
>> problem with the root file system image which was standing
>> in the way of launching an init.
>=20
> This is still an issue.  While tracking this down, I encountered a
> separate VM-related bug where a non-page-aligned mapping was created =
and
> then removed.  I think it might be related to the directory entry
> corruption that I observed, but I'm not completely sure yet.

Thanks, I guess it sounds like you might still be putting a bit of=20
time into it. I guess you've got a Quanta server to test against?

I sent a quick email to the FreeBSD foundation and Robert Watson =
suggested
someone from Tilera, Chris?, should come to brief the FreeBSD developer =
summit in=20
Ottawa this year and they would like interested students/faculty=20
from CMU to attend as well to give a talk about their work, in =
particular,
progress, motivations, and obstacles,=20

The developer summit would be held just after or just before BSDCan in =
this
case, http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/

The Tilera boards appeal to me a way of breaking the x86 stranglehold on
servers as they're still so power hungry. I've got a feeling ARM is =
going
to take a long time to penetrate the server market, but Tilera is =
aggressively
attacking it.

Cheers,
Mark=