Subject: Re: Announce: DEC AlphaServer 8400 is coming
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/24/2005 06:26:03
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:

> I tried it on a 2-CPU 8400 system, and the spurious hangings that
> occurred before disappeared, so suddenly the machine got usable :-)
>
> After some hours of stressing with "build.sh -j 8" over NFS it
> paniced though, in something that seems like an MP problem.
> Here's some DDB dumps, tell me if I should try out some more.

  Was the panic "fpsave ipi didn't"?

  If so, see PR #26383 (although my current patch is using splipi()
instead of splhigh() as in the PR).

> db{1}> bt
> cpu_Debugger() at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x4
> panic() at netbsd:panic+0x1e8
> fpusave_proc() at netbsd:fpusave_proc+0x22c

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