Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 32M
To: None <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Jeff Thieleke <thieleke@lust.isca.uiowa.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/16/1996 13:42:35
> >I really have no idea what is wrong here.  The only things unusual in the
> >boot messages are a few extraneous devices.  For example, 1.1 & 1.1B say
> >that I have a sea0 and ie0 devices.  1.1B additionally says I have ie1.  
> 
> >sea0: board type unknown at address 0xf82a3000
> >mcd0: timeout in getresult
> >mcd0: timeout in getresult
> >mcd0: timeout in getresult
> >ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15
> >*** NetBSD 1.1B also finds an ie1 ***
> 
> These devices are not really found; the messages you see are spewage
> from their respective probe routines.  I have submitted a PR
> (port-i386/2108) that shuts them up.  Probe routines should print
> nothing, in order to avoid confusion like you're experiencing.  The
> only exception would be if you define a driver-specific *DEBUG
> option (e.g. IEDEBUG).
> 
> Sorry I can't help you with your kernel-panic problem; but at least
> now you know that these messages aren't part of it.  To verify, try
> booting a kernel with all sea?, mcd?, and ie? devices removed.


My usual kernel doesn't have any of the above devices, and works fine at
16M, but not at 32M.  I didn't figure that the extraneous devices had
anything to do with my problem, but since that was the only visible change
between 1.1 and 1.1B, I thought I had better post them.



Jeff Thieleke