Subject: Re: HEADS UP: timecounters (branch simonb-timecounters) merged into
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/2006 06:43:08
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, loads
>the NetBSD-current kernel for domain 0, and gets through the boot process
>to:
>
>[...]
>wsdisplay0: screen 0-3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>Xen clock: using event channel 12
>
>then hangs forever.  There are no messages about timecounters at all.
>
>Thor
>  
>
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.

Frank