Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:06:35 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic on boot Message-ID: <20071009100635.GX2180@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <032a01c80a05$871b32c0$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK> References: <20071008193406.GT2180@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <032a01c80a05$871b32c0$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK>
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--6TME3aayZmn2Ikqb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Petr Holub wrote: > > The patch exists that modifies BTX to reflect interrupts and requests i= nto > > the real mode, see > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/ > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch >=20 > After booting the machine with this patch, it works like a charm, > looks fairly stable, Myrinet 10GE card up and running. So I > wonder: would it be possible to include this realbtx into 7.0-RELEASE? > It seems rather important, as many machines are now being > installed off USB CD drives and USB keys... No, it is definitely not for 7.0. There were some reports that keyboard works quite jerky under the /boot/loader, and some keystrokes were missing. Another, possible related, report was the need to press some key to actually boot, since loader timer did not work. I had no time to look at these problems. Also, it seems that code shall be conditionalized, and either alternate boot2/loader provided, or compile option present to select between vm86 btx/real btx. This was not thought of too. --6TME3aayZmn2Ikqb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHC1KqC3+MBN1Mb4gRAreMAKDN0iGfjC3oOKaKWRXF0jH6IA4ROwCeLu2Y YcOHMylWereBzmV/iWymt0E= =U3TI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TME3aayZmn2Ikqb--
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