On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:42:00AM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> fvdl@NetBSD.org said:
> > Ok, that narrows it down to changes that only affect the
> > MULTIPROCESSOR case.
> 
> Didn't follow the thread from the beginning, but there was a change
> by me which unfortunately affects multiprocessor systems: I changed
> the kernel memory allocator to respect the execute permission bit.
> (This used to work all the time for alpha.)
> I don't understand all the details yet, but MP systems need some
> pieces of memory mapped with execute permission; see the appended
> patch.

Thanks a lot.

I can report that all the MULTIPROCESSOR kernels are fine on my Tyan
s2885 (GENERIC.MP and GENERIC_ACPI+MULTIPROCESSOR).

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.