Subject: Re: HEADS UP: timecounters (branch simonb-timecounters) merged into -current
To: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/22/2006 16:08:42
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:43:08AM +0200, Frank Kardel wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:10:26AM +0200, Frank Kardel wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The FreeBSD implementation of Poul-Henning Kamp's timecounters
> >>was ported and committed to NetBSD-current.
> >>
> >>Timecounters will be supported on a per port basis. With
> >>the commit following ports make use of timecounters:
> >> i386
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This seems to have broken xen. It now boots the xen2 hypervisor, [...]
> >
> Can check tonight. There should be no messages as XEN down not
> yet support timecounters. It is possible that non timecounter operation
> doesn't work for i386 - I'll check.
Has this been fixed? I've been holding off upgrading a few systems since
with xen, post-timecounters-merge, they just don't work.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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