5.3-BETA5 Available
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sun Sep 19 23:57:40 PDT 2004
Chris Laverdure wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 03:15, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>>Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>>>*Clip*
>>>
>>>Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA4:
>>>
>>> - Updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your
>>> systems would be appreciated). This fixes a lot of problems with
>>> floppy drives not being probed/attached.
>>> - Fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the
>>> cdrom drive.
>>> - Change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time. If updating an
>>> older system remove /var/log/pflog before restarting pf.
>>> - Many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on.
>>
>>ummm no, today's testing shows that this may not be such a good idea..
>>it produces problem in wierd places, such as the atapi driver.
>
>
> Thank you Julian Elischer! I was just about to enable it again, but I
> suppose that isn't exactly wise. Not that I mind having my system
> rendered instable in the name of testing. But if there is no way the
> information I provide out of it is going to help, then I shall not
> torture myself.
>
> Any specifics or just `problems'?
no specifics yet except that it increases "flakiness"
>
>
>>>*clip*
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