Hello,

> >I strongly suspect there's something wrong in the 604 code.
> >- the mc problem seems to bite only people with 604s ( without your
> >changes at least )
> >- the hangup at boot time when banging the keyboard helps - seems to
> >happen only on 604s
> 
> Are these boots being done on the console or by serial? I run serial
> exclusively, due to severe monitor sync'ing problems on my 7300 that even
> the nvram patch did not fix, and I do not experience the same hangups.
> However, I do have to handle PSL_EE differently in order to boot at all.

John said he got the hangups only with single-processor kernels. Riccardo certainly uses the graphical console, Brian and myself too, no idea about John. I should build another MP kernel - so far they always crashed early.

have fun
Michael