From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 18 15:31:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [194.152.58.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BDF14D9B for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graichen@innominate.de) Received: from innominate.de (gatekeeper.innominate.de [212.5.16.129]) by hermes.mixx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA24954 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:31:27 +0200 Received: (qmail 19099 invoked from network); 18 Sep 1999 22:31:27 -0000 Received: from cello.innominate.local (192.168.0.13) by lingo01.innominate.local with SMTP; 18 Sep 1999 22:31:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (graichen@localhost) by cello.innominate.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA07118; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:31:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from graichen@innominate.de) X-Authentication-Warning: cello.innominate.local: graichen owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:31:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Graichen X-Sender: graichen@cello.innominate.local To: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote: > > Your message at freebsd-hackers: > > Hello, > > This looks like the 'timecounter.method' problem, > with AMD K5 model 0 sugar. > I have had good result from a single patch, > not touching the timecounter stuff, but instead: > > If you can find file sys/i386/i386/switch.s > and there a single operation > hlt > > try deleting that op, recompile/install kernel and reboot > and see what happens. I'm curious to hear about the result. > yes it works perfectly - it solved all the problems at once ... how did you find that solution ? - maybe this should be added as one of the cpu specific options to LINT - so that the next one will find that easier ... a lot of thanks t -- graichen@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message