Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:54:25 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP initialisation changes 6.1-PRERELEASE and 6.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <200701031254.l03CsPSF082168@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <007501c72f28$af27ffe0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <007501c72f28$af27ffe0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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"Steven Hartland" wrote: > Is anyone aware of any significant changes between 6.1-PRERELEASE > and 6.1-RELEASE which could cause and SMP kernel to hang when > initialising the CPU's? > > I have a Tyan s2892 based machine here which has been running > 6.1-PRELEASE happily for months, I finally got round to updating > to 6.1-RELEASE and it now just hangs. I've also tried 6.2-RC2 > and the same high happens with that. > > Also of note is that since updating to the latest BIOS on said > machine 2.03 from 2.0 I'm constantly seeing: > "calcru: runtime went backwards" messages from all processes > including idle. > > Steve If you have old bins & kernel & src/, or spare old boot partition, or another 6.1-PRERELEASE host to cross compile from: also worth building another 6.1-PRERELEASE kernel, to see its perhaps a build system or hardware problem ? Or a loader.conf or kernel conf before that disabled dual maybe, & got swept away in upgrade ? > This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and Entire World. Archived. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software
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