Re: Problems on TS-101

Frank Wille <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:58:09 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sandpoint
Organization Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:22:24 +0200
Oscar Molin <[email protected]> wrote:

> What's your guess? Is altboot overwriting its own memory space?

I think I found the problem with altboot!

It is not the compiler, although gcc 4.1.3 seemed to hide the bug
a little better, but a bug which had always been there in altboot and
could have been the source for multiple instabilities:

We had forgotten to disable interrupts when starting altboot! This may
have some unpleasant effects, as U-Boot's exception handlers are still
in place.

The new version seems rock-solid. Please try it:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/phx/sandpoint/altboot.bin.gz

-- 
Frank Wille