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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch Alpha to new cpu_switch/throw conventions
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:24:28PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:14:59PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I have a completely untested (but should work :-P) patch to convert
> > Alpha over to the new cpu_throw/switch conventions of passing the
> > threads in as arguments to the function.  The patch is at
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha_switch.patch  I would
> > appreciate it if someone could test it.  Success would be making
> > it to multiuser mode.  Failure would probably be panic'ing very early
> > after starting init since failure means context switches are broken.
> 
> Kaboom:
...
> Digital Personal Workstation (Miata)
> Digital Personal WorkStation 433au, 432MHz

The patch worked for me -- could the problem be the difference between
ev56 and ev6?