Some evidence about the PowerMac G5 multiprocessor boot hang ups with the modern VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS value

[Mark Millard]

On 2019-Feb-14, at 15:16, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> . . .
> 
> I'll note that I did some experimenting with a system-clang
> based kernel build, used with devel/powerpc64-binutils ,
> avoiding loading kernel modules dynamically. I did not have
> any boot problems but I'd not done enough activity to
> infer too much. My normal builds are based on
> devel/powerpc64-xoolchain-gcc related tools, including
> devel/powerpc64-gcc .


I tried a system-clang based kernel some more and got the
hang-up problem repeatedly. It looks the same.


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