kern/71958: 5.3-BETA5 + PREEMPTION on VMware ESX 2.1.1 freeze at boot

[Henri Hennebert]

The following reply was made to PR kern/71958; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Henri Hennebert <hlh at ciger.be>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/71958: 5.3-BETA5 + PREEMPTION on VMware ESX 2.1.1 freeze
 at boot
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:43:07 +0200

 Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:27:43AM +0000, Henri Hennebert wrote:
 > 
 > 
 >>If I add `option PREEMPTION' to the kernel configuration of 5.3-BETA5,
 >>the boot process freeze. Without this option all is OK. Here is
 >>the dmesg of the boot and the freeze point:
 > 
 > 
 > This is believed to be fixed.  Can you please confirm?
 
 YES - it is fixed after a cvsup (with tag=RELENG_5) executed at
 Fri Oct  1  8:52:55 UTC 2004.
 
 Henri