Subject: Re: Newer kernels not booting all the way & maximum RAM problems
To: None <port-sgimips@NetBSD.org>
From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/24/2004 19:21:40
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:53:44AM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> > I can confirm that all the snapshots beginning with the releng Jan 28
> > snapshots will not boot on the O2 (both R5K and R10K).
> 
> Confirmed.  It turns out that my skeleton lpt driver got committed during the
> rototill on 18 January.  It sits on mace interrupt #4, as do both serial ports.
> We try to be clever about dispatching to the right handler, but I've clearly
> screwed something up there.
> 
> In any case, commenting out the lpt driver from the config and/or returning 0
> in lpt_mace_match fixes the problem.  I've just committed the necessary.

Thanks! I'll wait until releng has a newer kernel, test it, then rebuilt
to -current if all goes well.

-T


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