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[Mark Blackman]

On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:36, Andrew Bresticker wrote:

> 
>> When the clock ran out Andrew was trying to debug some odd
>> problem with the root file system image which was standing
>> in the way of launching an init.
> 
> This is still an issue.  While tracking this down, I encountered a
> separate VM-related bug where a non-page-aligned mapping was created and
> then removed.  I think it might be related to the directory entry
> corruption that I observed, but I'm not completely sure yet.

Thanks, I guess it sounds like you might still be putting a bit of 
time into it. I guess you've got a Quanta server to test against?

I sent a quick email to the FreeBSD foundation and Robert Watson suggested
someone from Tilera, Chris?, should come to brief the FreeBSD developer summit in 
Ottawa this year and they would like interested students/faculty 
from CMU to attend as well to give a talk about their work, in particular,
progress, motivations, and obstacles, 

The developer summit would be held just after or just before BSDCan in this
case, http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/

The Tilera boards appeal to me a way of breaking the x86 stranglehold on
servers as they're still so power hungry. I've got a feeling ARM is going
to take a long time to penetrate the server market, but Tilera is aggressively
attacking it.

Cheers,
Mark