Re: -current panic on amd64

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:57:16PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:32:18PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:15:14PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:46:57AM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> > > > I found it!
> > > > 
> > > > I updated the sources just few minutes ago and built GENERIC and a 
> > > > custom 
> > > > kernel where I removed ipmi, everything else is like GENERIC.
> > > > 
> > > > The custom kernel boots fine while the GENERIC crashed before even 
> > > > reaching 
> > > > the login prompt.
> > > 
> > > Yes, disabling ipmi helped (I "downgraded" to netbsd-5 as well, though).
> > 
> > That is weird because the only difference in "src/sys/arch/x86/x86/ipmi.c"
> > between HEAD and the "netbsd-5" branch are the CVS revisions.
> 
> I mean I disabled ipmi (which was supposed to "fix" the panic) but also
> downgraded to 5.0_beta, so the downgrade probably had nothing to do with
> the problem going away.  (I wanted to test the upcoming release in the
> first place..)

This should be fixed in 5.0 and -current.

Andrew