Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:13:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terry's changes (was Re: ufs lock panic in -current) Message-ID: <199704031813.LAA16506@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1166.860048163@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 3, 97 08:16:03 am
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> >Then quit bitching about FreeBSD not accepting your patches. You've > >been asked to provide them in an 'easy to vend' manner, and you've > >refused stating it's too much work. Then, PHK and others have stated, > >upload your whole store, and you're unwilling to do that either. > > Well, I'm not sure he wasn't willing to, but I belive that last time > we went over that Terry ran into a terrible string of bad luck. First > his disk crashed, then his powersupply died and finally the city-council > banned all export of non-zero valued bits or something so he has to > invent and code a encryption routine that would only outbut zero bits... Actually, I suffered a compression fracture of my L1 vertebra, and did not get out of the back-brace until 8 weeks ago. It may astound you that someone recovering from a broken back would not be at full capacity the day after the injury. Maybe you Danes are just made of sterner stuff than us Americans... > I remember when I received Terrys much talked about version of the SMP > prototype. The only difference was that it could still not even get > close to working and he had addded a couple of comments. This was Jack Vogel's code, and all I did was update the code to the new initialization method, obtain the missing header file not in Jacks posted patch set, and organize the boot build so that the code would build. This was not *my* SMP prototype, and it required that you start with the October 10th, 1994 code that Jack started with to get correct locore.s code without the stack frame and other changes introduced since then. If you had started with the code of the date specified, the patches would apply cleanly, and SMP motherboards meeting the Intel MP Specification version 1.1 and with the optional MP Configuration table in BIOS (like the ASUS board I bought and the ASUS board that Walnut Creek CDROM loaned to Jack) would come up with two processors running. Much like if you had started with the 16 June 1995 tree date specified in my "grand unified patch set", the patch set would have applied cleanly, either as two deltas (the first set was admittedly incomplete -- I said as much at the time) or as a whole (when you didn't want to apply two sets of patches, I supplied them as one set). > Is it just because I'm danish that I'm thinking of H.C.Andersens > tale "The emperors new clothes" ? > > Terry's code doesn't exist. Jeffrey Hsu had the full "one set" which I supplied you, and was able to deal with it to get a running system. I still don't know what your problem was with them. Both Julian Elischer and John Dyson (sorry I forgot about John) have had copies of the demanded "scaled down" set since before the Lite2 merge. I have been patiently waiting for the merge to be completed so that they will be able to tell the difference between general bugs and those I may have introduced. I will continue to wait. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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