From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 22:39:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D45D16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0696443D2F for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1O6dbOE049637; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1O6dbUd013157; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i1O6dbEp013156; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Ken Smith Message-ID: <20040224063937.GB13093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <16442.29712.148987.927650@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15989.1077572841@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040224045930.GA8881@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040224045930.GA8881@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Alpha ref machine is grumpy... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:39:51 -0000 On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:59:30PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > > I get a broken kernel. I believe that means it's the last of the device > megapatches that causes the problem (I'm not blaming the device megapatches, > as phk says the issue might be with the Alpha code doing things it wasn't > supposed to do...). I'll let you guys figure out which of those it is. :-) > Given absolutely nothing comes out the serial console other than the > complaint about the kernel stack my vote goes for the console code being > where it dies but ... I think the problem is that on alpha we never call cninit(). As a quick test, can you remove device sio from the kernel config and instead add the following: options NO_SIO device uart This is expected to work. Can you verify that for me? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net