Subject: Re: The ppcoea-renovation was merged
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@NetBSD.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/18/2007 15:03:07
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Hello,

On Oct 18, 2007, at 14:18, John Klos wrote:

> Excellent! Thank you very much!
>
> I have a dual processor 604e CPU card. I'll try it in a 7600 type  
> machine in the next couple of days.

There are two areas which are likely broken:
- - starting the secondary CPU ( see macppc/cpu.c / md_setup_trampoline 
(), the non-openpic branch ). If you get a message about the 2nd CPU  
not spinning up right after attaching that's where to look.
- - IPIs may not work. I added counters for IPIs received per CPU ( see  
vmstat -i ), if they remain zero even after doing some work you may  
want to look at macppc/ipi_hammerhead.c. This would also cause random  
crashes of userland processes.

have fun
Michael
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