Subject: Re: Serious breakage in latest PowerMac snapshot
To: Tsubai Masanari <tsubai@iri.co.jp>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 03/12/1998 10:22:29
>> I haven't tested OFCONS yet.  The MACE bug does appear to be fixed.
>
> I take that back.  It just died with `panic: receive 1' again.

To expand a little more on that:

Large back-to-back NFS packets do appear to work now.  I'm using an 8k
block size again.  However, it stills dies with `panic: receive 1'
occasionally.

It's conceivable that there's a compiler bug lurking in here.  GCC 2.7
definitely has problems on the PowerPC with 64-bit values, and this
only seems to happen with NFS, not with other network traffic.

It's getting very close...