Re: Anyone using current on m68k? (Was: port-atari/39965: "lock error" panic)

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> abs%absd.org@localhost wrote:
>
> > > This should not be possible, so it looks to me as if either the
> > > interrupt levels or the lock/cv implementation must be broken.
> >
> > It would be good to confirm if anyone has installed and tested under any
> > reasonable load current on another m68k platform - to see if this is a
> > general m68k issue or atari specific....
>
> On news68k, upgrading to 5.0_BETA via sysinst
> (i.e. fetching and extracting whole binary sets)
> worked fine.
>
> - atari has its own pmap.c so some stuff might be out of sync
> - <machine/intr.h> implementation could also have problem

        Excellent point - syncing sys/arch/atari/atari/pmap.c with
        sys/arch/m68k/m68k/pmap_motorola.c with a view towards switching
        atari across to the shared pmap would certainly be a good place
        to start, and worthwhile even if it doesn't fix this particular
        issue.

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