Subject: Re: Weirdness on latest Alpha snap.
To: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/16/1998 16:01:02
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com> wrote:
> [ kpneal reports wierd NCR problems ]
>
> [ mheller reports wierd NCR problems ]
>
> I've seen some of these myself.
>
> They have something to do with UVM. I took the time to revert kernels and
> eventually realized that it wasn't anything in the source that had changed,
> but it happened when /sys/arch/alpha/conf was changed to build UVM kernels.
Maybe instead someone who can actually reproduce the problem can try and
find/fix it? Using Mach VM isn't going to be a good answer when it's
deleted from the source tree.
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