From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 04:31:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9F6CEA for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:31:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kristof@swissmail.org) Received: from vm-mailout2.vm.swissmail.org (vm-mailout2.vm.swissmail.org [212.25.22.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9309F6AF for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vm-pemfos2.intra.swissmail.org (vm-smtp2.intra.swissmail.org [192.168.173.55]) by vm-mailout2.vm.swissmail.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id r0F4SxcS018085; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:28:59 +0100 Received: from vm-pemfos2.intra.swissmail.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (PEmFoS-local-10025) with ESMTP id D608D4A003; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:30:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (PEmFoS/1506.5356.a1); Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:30:52 +0100 (CET) X-Pemfos-Policyd: accepted (/dXa7Y69Z+YljHGucSA+iQw2VDZuFzsfXzkxCHIHACY6AD06AUY/IUZEThZNHj01) Message-ID: <50F4DB79.4050900@swissmail.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:30:49 -0600 From: Krzysztof Parzyszek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Hibbits Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 freezes randomly on G5 References: <50F4BADB.5@swissmail.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:31:12 -0000 On 1/14/2013 9:45 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > > I actually had the same problem with a nearly identical machine, but > less memory. I think it may be a bad interrupt controller, and was > planning to tackle interrupt routing for it, as I think MacOSX routes > all non-IPI interrupts to core 0. I do have a 2.3GHz machine of the same > family that runs FreeBSD perfectly, though, so my motivation is lacking > right now. Seems like pressing the "SMU reset" button helped, at least for now. The computer is actually working quite well compared to what it used to be. About the interrupt routing---was this going to be a software solution (e.g. kernel driver)? Is there a documentation about how all these things work on a PPC? -Krzysztof