From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 9 13:33:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD9937B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f29LXTA74395; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:33:19 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: Entropy harvesting? Grim reaper is more like it... Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Mar-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mark Murray wrote: > >> > I changed nothing from whatever the default is. It seems like a bit of >> > POLA to >> > freeze now. >> > >> > But I'll check this - if I can get that machine up again :-)... >> >> OK - if this is the entropy driver, then typing about 2 lines of shit >> will unlock it. > > Neither ^T or typing does anything. I'll have to do some surgery from another > boot disk to find out what's what. Uk. Erm, just so you know. The 4100 here at WC doesn't even make it past the SCSI probe due to interrupt issues. If it's running really up to date current, try changing sys/alpha/include/mutex.h to define mtx_intr_enable() to nothing, which will hackishly run ithreads with a raised IPL and might solve the problem if its an interrupt storm you are seeing. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message