Re: port-sparc/38288

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:47, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:42:59AM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> > NetBSD/sparc SMP kernels crash shortly after startup because in the
> > New Order Of Things(tm) we need to have working CPU_INFO_ITERATOR and
> > friends before autoconf runs.
>
> Can't we grovel the prom in pmap bootstrap and make sure to  
> allocate the
> cpuinfos earlier?

Whatever is easier - I'm not overly likely to have time to do this in  
the next few days. Apparently we do some grovelling early enough  
since sparc_ncpus is set correctly before we print the copyright  
message ( the crash happens shortly after that ). I'm just not sure  
if we can kmem_alloc() at that point.

have fun
Michael

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