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From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
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Subject: WITNESS may cause failed boot, patch available
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Peter Wemm noticed that WITNESS currently causes a kernel trap the alpha.
The bug also exists on x86, but does not necessarily cause any problems.
If you run into problems (probably during boot), there is a patch available
that should fix the WITNESS problem:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/diffs/mutex_f_3.diff

Jason


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