Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:46:42 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: steveo@eircom.net (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Cc: hm@hcs.de, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel Message-ID: <20000714144642.6202B483D@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000713103729.steveo@eircom.net> from Steve O'Hara-Smith at "Jul 13, 0 10:37:29 am"
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From the keyboard of Steve O'Hara-Smith:
> On 13-Jul-00 Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
> > I'm now completely out of ideas ....
>
> Try and pin down which printf really makes a difference ?
Ok, did that. Surprise: i removed all the debugging code and all changes
i made to track down what happenes in the kbd driver as well as the pcvt
driver - everything now is completely as it was and it tracks down to
a single printf in /sys/dev/kbd.c: adding it lets a pcvt kernel boot
as happily as before, removing this printf gives the described panic:
/* find the keyboard specified by a driver name and a unit number */
int
kbd_find_keyboard(char *driver, int unit)
{
int i;
printf("kbd_find_keyboard\n");
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
for (i = 0; i < keyboards; ++i) {
...
I'm currently re-cvsupping/recompiling a completly fresh tree to reproduce
this to make shure it is really this single printf. Also i will try out
something to make shure it is not a timing problem somewhere.
> I recall a long time ago a bit of code that had calls to a function
> that did nothing, the comment was that it prevented an MSC optimiser bug from
> screwing things up.
Oh oh ...
I would really appreciate it if someone else would have a look at this.
hellmuth
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