Subject: Re: Stability of 2.0_RCx?
To: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 12/13/2004 14:54:14
On 13 Dec 2004 22:39:27 +0100, Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > From: Andy Ruhl [mailto:acruhl@gmail.com]
> >
> > Also, my first nfs server was on a Cobalt Qube 2, which wasn't a good
> > idea. There seems to be some serious performance problem when using
> > these as an NFS server. Now my server is on my amd64 box.
> 
> Just for the record: On my tests the DC root was on a NetBSD 2.0
> macppc system and the base.tgz was on a Linux 2.4.9 server.
> 
> I wonder why the dreamcast reboots and not simply freezes or enters
> ddb. How does this reboot happen?

I agree. It would be much nicer to either dump or go into a debugger. 

I'm wondering if this is a characteristic of the hardware for it to do this.

After that one reboot this morning, I have built some more software
and just done some things and I have no reboots. Again, this is on
NetBSD 2.0.

Andy