Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Alpha ref machine is grumpy... Message-ID: <20040224063937.GB13093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040224045930.GA8881@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <16442.29712.148987.927650@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15989.1077572841@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040224045930.GA8881@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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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
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