Subject: Re: Announce: DEC AlphaServer 8400 is coming
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/24/2005 11:11:49
On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:26 AM, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> 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).

I will try and take a look at this tonight, as well.

-- thorpej