>>>> Greetings, I built a kernel with various debugging options, this is 
>>>> from
>>>> netbsd-2-0 source tree which I downloaded last night. What I 
>>>> noticed was
>>>> adding 'options DIAGNOSTIC' causes kernel to panic on boot:
>>>>
>>>> panic: wdc_exec_command: polled command not done
>>>> kdb breakpoint at 13ac460
>>>> Stopped in pid 5.1 (atabus1) at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x4: nop
>>>
>>>
>>> Hum, I though this issue couldn't happen on 2.0. Ca you get a stack 
>>> trace
>>> from here, to see from where this command comes from ?
>>>
>>
>> I can't, I don't have serial interface set up yet, and when this panic
>> happens the terminal and keyboard are unresponsive. I guess it's 
>> because
>> it happens at an early boot up stage :-/
>
> Well, OK. I think I've found the cause of this. Can you try the 
> attached
> patch ? It's a back port of a similar change I did in current.
>
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>

hi all (and sorry for x-posting),

is it possible that this problem affects this (see my email to macppc, 
[1]) misbehaviour which i saw on my G4 *and* on my G3 with every 
-current released after 2.99.9?

this issue is still unresolved :( -- but meanwhile i got a serial port 
into the G3 (b&w) so that i could supply more information if req'd.

regards,

timo

[1] -- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2004/11/23/0002.html