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At Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:41:21 -0700, Stephen Jones wrote:
Subject: Re: NetBSD/alpha MP stability and other bugs
>=20
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > I've been running various incarnations of the netbsd-1-6 branch on
> > several MP AlphaServers without too much trouble (albiet with most of
> > Michael's PMAP and locking patches), including on a 3-CPU 4100 w/=20
> > 2GB, a
> > 2-CPU 264DP w/1GB, and a 4-CPU ES40 w/16GB.  Indeed there are some
> > occasional crashes due to MP locking bugs, but they're usually rare
> > enough to only be annoying.
>=20
> Do Michael's patches actually work/resolve issues?

Just to be clear, my variant of the netbsd-1-6 branch, which I'm using
in production on all those machines, includes some/most/all of Michael's
pmap.c patches.

The occasional crashes I see may be bugs in other parts of the kernel,
probably MI, and they may or may not already be fixed in -current.  Time
will tell.

Hopefully I'll find time to get the whole netbsd-4 into shape with my
private patches I have for my own production use and soon move to using
it.  My need to use netbsd-1-6 for production really has nothing to do
with anything other than that it's where I've spent the most effort to
date at applying local changes which facilitate my own production needs.

--=20
						Greg A. Woods

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