From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 14:55:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C618106566B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:55:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BDF8FC08 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n8LEtqdC025794; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MpkIy-0005Cb-Nl; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8LEtqnr059595; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n8LEtqfu059592; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Marius Strobl In-Reply-To: <20090921143504.GD73777@alchemy.franken.de> Message-ID: <20090921155445.W4106@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <3979a4b0909170200x754ea8c5l495e300b2a7a5113@mail.gmail.com> <20090917224556.GA41908@alchemy.franken.de> <3979a4b0909172329q3a113942xfcd71394a98fee19@mail.gmail.com> <20090918131416.GQ57060@alchemy.franken.de> <20090921150632.U4106@ury.york.ac.uk> <20090921143504.GD73777@alchemy.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it posible to run FreeBSD/sparc64 on SunFire V215? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:55:58 -0000 On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marius Strobl wrote: > The behaviour you describe was present between r177108 > and r182919 (and before r60506), since r182919 the > loader just leaves the network interface instance > opened forever again for sparc64 so this shouldn't be > the reason for what KOT MATPOCKuH is seeing. Of course > leaving the NIC instance opened isn't the right to do > either and in fact likely is part of the problem > which triggeres the panic he is seeing, I don't see > an easy way to properly fix the loader/libstand to > not do the open-close-dance for every access though. Ah, thanks for that update - I hadn't realised one cause of this had been fixed. In that case, when I get a chance, I'll try to analyse why netbooting is so slow on my machines too. Gavin