From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19:30:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEDA37B61C for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:18:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7398B230A6; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:17:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 9EFE49F359; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:12:28 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:09:12 -0500 (EST) To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED Message-Id: <20020212021228.9EFE49F359@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: > > for the set of patches at: > http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/adiff > > these patches SHOULD NOT EFFECT your system except to do some > slight re-aranging of stuff in the kernel. Today's alpha kernel, plus those changes results in a ksp not valid halt with the PC near the beginning of mi_startup: /boot//kernel.bad/kernel data=0x4150c0+0x39360 syms=[0x8+0x62e68+0x8+0x4a36d] Entering /boot//kernel.bad/kernel at 0xfffffc000033b680... sio1: gdb debugging port halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = fffffc000047e80c >>> Since thread0 is no longer a pointer, this looks suspicious in locore.s: /* * Switch to proc0's PCB. */ ldq t0,thread0 /* get phys addr of pcb */ ldq a0,TD_MD_PCBPADDR(t0) SWITCH_CONTEXT Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message