From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 20 10:10:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from EnContacto.Net (adsl-63-205-16-205.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [63.205.16.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C34437B719 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: (from root@localhost) by EnContacto.Net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2KI7pY63497; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 63.205.16.202 ( [63.205.16.202]) as user eculp@EnContacto.Net by Mail.InternetSalon.Org with HTTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:07:50 -0800 Message-ID: <985111670.3ab79c76a1449@Mail.InternetSalon.Org> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:07:50 -0800 From: "Edwin L. Culp" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Pierre Beyssac , daeron@wit401305.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CURRENT instability References: <20010315081658.A799@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> <20010319083012.A53628@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> <20010319121606.A89188@enst.fr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 63.205.16.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My old K6-2 laptop has this problem and the patch seemed to fix the crashes that I was experiencing under almost minimal load. The down side is that it also brought me a pccard or DEVFS problem so no network. Of course that could have been caused by out-of-sync kernel and sources due to all the crashes and the fact that I had to build the patched kernel on an up-to-date Current desktop and install it on the laptop, but of course with the laptop KERNCONF. Has this or another fix been committed? Thanks, ed Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav : > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Try this workaround (apply with 'patch -l'): > > Here's a better workaround. Revert the previous patch and apply this > one: > > Index: npx.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/npx.c,v > retrieving revision 1.93 > diff -u -r1.93 npx.c > --- npx.c 2001/03/19 00:28:04 1.93 > +++ npx.c 2001/03/19 20:28:55 > @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ > } > npxinit(__INITIAL_NPXCW__); > > -#ifdef I586_CPU > +#ifdef I586_CPU_DOES_NOT_WORK > if (cpu_class == CPUCLASS_586 && npx_ex16 && npx_exists && > timezero("i586_bzero()", i586_bzero) < > timezero("bzero()", bzero) * 4 / 5) { > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. --Alvin Toffler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message