Re: Trouble booting 9.2 on Alpha Jensen

Istvan Gyenes <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Jan 2022 22:26:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <CADxH_9_TrP=0-LYPz41JWE_Zf1kXchzYS=+OBUHzSuNDe1sn8w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jason,

I have made some builds and I see the following:
02/08/2021 sources (9.99.87) are booting fine, but 09/08/2021 (9.99.88)
fails to boot.
If you have the time to have a look at what has changed that would be
awesome.

Happy New Year,

--
istvan

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 7:50 PM Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 30, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Nigel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Jason:
> >
> > Is there anything i can do using ECU to solve the problem?  I don't
> really care if it makes it incompatible with VMS, since I am only keeping
> that to have something that I know boots!
>
> If you can configure the SCSI controller to have a LEVEL-trigger IRQ, then
> that will work around the bug in the “ahb” driver that is causing the
> interrupt storm that hangs the machine.
>
> -- thorpej
>
>