2 updates: 9.1-RELEASE is here and major stability bug fixed.

Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ia64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
All,

Due to a lack of time, I didn't make 9.1-RELEASE when the release
was being made. With a little bit of prodding (thanks Jerome!) I
spent the time last week to make one. It took me a while (see
below), but the good news is that 9.1-RELEASE available for
download on selected mirrors.

The reason it took a while is two-fold: the FreeBSD cluster was
undergoing changes and I couldn't build on cluster machines like
I normally do. So, I decided to built the release on my own machine.
Well, that triggered many panics, which I later found out was
because I had preemption enabled in my kernel. Rather than revert
that change, I started debugging. I'm pleased to announce that the
root cause problem was nailed down and fixed and that the stability
problems that pestered ia64 should be gone for the most part.

Unfortunately, the fix cannot be in 9.1-RELEASE, but it will be
committed to 9-stable shortly.

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
[email protected]


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