Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Michael Joy wrote:
> 
> > what kernel should I be using for a Performa 630 w/ 68040 cpu? I'm getting
> > wierd panic halts during the bootup. They go as follow's:
> > after the scsi ---> then on to fpu0 ---> it gets to root files system type:
> > ffs the HD churns and it says
> > 
> > panic: pool_get: must have NOWAIT
> > Stopped at      _Debugger0x6:   unlk     a6
> 
> That's from a long-standing bug which was recently discovered in the scsi
> driver.
> 
> > I have no clue what this meens! I tried the current snapshot build kernels:
> > Generic-84 GenericSBC-84 MRT-84 MRGSBC-84
> > 
> > what is wrong?
> 
> The driver is trying to allocate memory and is indicating that it can wait
> for the memory to become available if none is now. The problem is it's
> doing it at a time when the mechanism to wait for memory to become
> available (the ability to put thi on hold and come back to it) is not
> operative.
> 
> Recent kernels have fixed this, though I'm not sure which ones you want.

The problem is that the libc signal stuff broke shortly before this was
fixed, so we haven't had a working snapshot built in a couple of weeks :-(

Hopefully, Charles will get the m68k signal stuff finally straightened out
sometime soon, and we can go back to building kernels.

However, that doesn't help you, but perhaps this will:  have you tried
NetBSD 1.3.2?  It should support your machine.....

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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