Subject: Re: 1.6 woes
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/28/2002 13:11:58
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 11:08:32PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:51:31PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > Ah.  Well, maybe it'll get fixed, then.  As it is, my SS1's are pretty much
> > > useless.
> > 
> > Same problem with my SS1+ and IPC
> 
> I really hope this gets fixed before 1.6 is released.  Alternatively,
> some kind soul could send me a fre SS20's or some such to run NetBSD on ;)

I don't think it will. This problem has been there for a long time,
and we're still not sure about what's going on.

> 
> > 1.5.x doens't have problem either. This code has been there for ages, the
> > bug seems to have been triggered by UBC. See port-sparc/14180 for more
> > details.
> 
> I see.  Well, the 1.5ZA kernel you gave me works OK and I built a 1.6beta4
> kernel while running it.  The 1.6 kernel also works (I applied the patch
> from you) and I'm building pkgsrc stuff with it.  No signal 11's so far..
> 
> Still, system time usage seems pretty high to me.. over 50% at times
> when running gcc.

Yes, I see it too. I need to build a profiling kernel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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