Subject: Re: HEADS UP: timecounters (branch simonb-timecounters) merged into -current
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/22/2006 23:18:07
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:26:38PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:21:04PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > > 
> > > Has this been fixed?  I've been holding off upgrading a few systems since
> > > with xen, post-timecounters-merge, they just don't work.
> > 
> > This needs more investigation. I've done various tests on my systems
> > and coundln't reproduce any problems.
> > 
> > Are you building with gcc-4 ? I'm still using gcc-3 only.
> 
> No, I am using gcc 3, which is the default.
> 
> A kernel from 10 minutes before the timecounters merge started works
> fine, as I noted earlier.  After the merge, any dom0 kernel I build
> hangs where indicated by the dmesg I posted.
> 
> The system is a Tyan Athlon-MP motherboard with one processor installed,
> with NetBSD-current and Xen2.

All my test systems are Intel. Could this be AMD-specific ? I notice that
Franck's system is AMD too.

Or maybe it's because I'm using slow hardware. I'll see if I have time
to test on a 3Ghz P4 system tomorow.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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