Same problem, new year 2100A machine check

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 28 06:18:11 PST 2004


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:51:03AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Tom Ponsford writes:
> 
>  > > 1) Build a kernel with ddb and get a stack trace.
>  > > When the machine crashes and you land at the "db>" prompt, type 'tr'
>  > 
>  > I think I did that once before for this list, I think it was a year or so ago. 
>  > Here is the backtrace I posted: It was for then 5.0 current
>  > a smp and uniprocessor kernel did exactly the same thing.
> 
> I seem to vaguely remember a thread like this fizzling out a long time
> ago.  I think the trap is happening at a slightly different place.
> (well after eisab0 in the 5.0 trace).

Wasn't that something todo with an extra bridgeboard or somesuch on the Cbus? 
I only have a faint recollection here..

> FWIW, having written the 2100 support, I think I'm free to say that
> 2100 series is totally evil, and you'd be better off using it as a
> boat anchor, a fish tank, or in some other non-computational capacity...

Hi hi.. the things we regret having done in the past. 

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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