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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:53:03 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: atomic.h vs atomic.s
Message-ID:  <3D99A8BF.364965BD@freebsd.org>
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Hi Drew,

> After restarting the build as needed, I've built a working kernel
> natively.

 I'll be happier when no restarts are needed :-)

> I've got 2 weird quirks which I was wonder if are specific to my
> hardware --
> 
> - there's no TOY (or TOD) clock read at boot:

 Yes, known problem. This will just need some more device support.

> - reboot locks the machine up:
 ...
> At this point, it looks good, but openfirmware won't take any input.

 I get this too. The only thing I can put it down to is that not
enough register context is being restored for the OpenFirmware 'exit'
call to work properly. I'll experiment with saving/restoring SPRG0-3,
which I noticed NetBSD added recently.

later,

Peter.

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