Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc (turning off idle page zeroing)
To: None <pk@netbsd.org>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/14/2000 19:38:08
At 6:44 -0700 9/12/00, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
>Module Name:	syssrc
>Committed By:	pk
>Date:		Tue Sep 12 13:43:56 UTC 2000
>
>Modified Files:
>	syssrc/sys/arch/sparc/sparc [netbsd-1-5]: cpu.c
>
>Log Message:
>Pullup rev. 1.106->1.107 (approved by thorpej):
>
>>  revision 1.107
>>  date: 2000/09/10 11:32:04;  author: pk;  state: Exp;  lines: +17 -2
>>  Turn off page zeroing in the idle loop; an unidentified bug causes (very
>>  sporadic) user process corruption.
>
>(actually applies to Microsparc 1 machines only).

There are only two microSPARC I CPU systems that Sun ever made: the 
SPARC Classic, and the SPARC LX (well, and the "X terminal" 
configurations of those two). Everything else since is microSPARC II, 
including the Voyager, SS4, and SS5.

Can't this be shut off at boot after the CPU type is detected (or 
turned on for all CPUs except the microSPARC I)?

	Erik <fair@clock.org>