Re: OpenBSD 7.2 on Alpha

This is awesome!  Thank you for all the help, really appreciate it.
If there is anything I can do in the future to help out please let me =
know.  I have joined the mailing list.

AlphaServer 4100
AlphaServer 2100
Hoping to get more soon=E2=80=A6



> On Jan 2, 2023, at 4:13 PM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
>> Here is the output of the commands:
>>=20
>> ddb> x/lx cpu_amask
>> cpu_amask:                 0
>> ddb> x/i __bwx_switch0,3
>> __bwx_switch0:  lda     t0,7(zero)
>> __bwx_switch0+0x4:      stb     t0,95(s2)
>> __bwx_switch0+0x8:      ldq     v0,-7b88(gp)
>=20
> Excellent! This confirms my idea.
>=20
> So it turns out that you've been bitten by a bug I introduced a bit =
more
> than 17 1/2 years ago, which only triggers on older 21164 processors -
> 21164A processors are not affected. It looks like you're the first one
> to try and run OpenBSD on such a processor since OpenBSD 3.7 (the bug
> having been introduced in 3.8).
>=20
> I'll build you fixed 7.2 kernels tomorrow and contact you offlist, so
> that you can use your system.