Re: hang on revivesa with dual core CPU

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:01:48PM +0200, Vincent wrote:
> Bill Stouder-Studenmund a ?crit :
> 
> >>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2008/09/22/msg002782.html
> >>A lot of people would be interested in this being fixed, myself
> >>included!
> >I'm not sure that this is the same issue. The original problem here was 
> >that things start, then wedge. The issue above, as best I can tell, is 
> >something that hits boot. Or do I misunderstand?
> 
> Right. The second core won't start. It stays in a halt state, probably 
> until the ps/2 keyboard is detected and initialized in the course of 
> boot. The guess of Manuel was that some line is held up until proper 
> init, whereas when the PS/2 driver is absent, the line is not touched 
> and things proceed properly.

There are some other control lines that have been connected to the
keyboard controlled (A20 mask), maybe there is something of that ilk
causing grief.

        David

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