Thanks your reply. The following is the output of bt at the db> prompt 
after the panic.

0x00494e50: at panic+0x19c
0x00494ee0: at __assert+0x28
0x00494ef0: at softintr__run+0xcc
0x00494f10: at do_pending_int+0x1d4
0x00494f50: at splx+0x40
0x00494f60: at ext_intr+0x174
0x00494fa0: at trapstart+0x880
0x0049ce30: at Idle+0x14
0x0049ce40: at mi_swich+0x198
0x0049ce80: at ltsleep+0x41c
0x0049cec0: at uvm_scheduler+0xb0
0x0049cef0: at main+0x6ec
0x0049cf30: at 0x100090

Is it useful?

p.s Sorry everybody, I just enable the Return Receipt in the last mail.  
Now  I've disabled it.

Chris Tribo wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, arix chen wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have a PPC 8600 running NetBSd 2.0, but sometime the kernel will panic and has the following message. It there anyone can help me to find out the problem? Please tell me what information I should post.
>>
>>panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "si->si_refs > 0" failed: file
>>"../../../../arch/powerpc/powerpc/softintr.c", line 116
>>    
>>
>
>Your best bet at this point is to try a current kernel and see if it still
>occurs, or wait for the next release; unless you feel like testing
>bleeding edge patches to enable crash dumps and fix interrupt handling.
>
>A good start for what you have would be to type bt at the db> prompt after
>the panic and send us that output
>
>  
>

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