Re: NetBSD 5.0RC2, amd64, XEN_DOM0, panic

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I reported this to Manuel Bouyer several months ago when running -current.
> I decided to give 5.0RC2 a try yesterday, but the problem remains.
> 
> I have a quad core Intel system (Supermicro hardware, 4 GB RAM, Areca RAID
> controller) which runs a GENERIC amd64 kernel without problems (I have done
> several NetBSD builds).  When running XEN_DOM0 kernel, the system locks up
> or panics every time before completing a build.

After testing various combinations for several days each:

           disk = sd0 at arcmsr0          disk = wd0 at atabus2 (SATA)
amd64      works ok                       works ok
amd64+xen  panics                         works ok

So the problem might be in arcmsr driver under xen and amd64.

  -jm