Subject: Re: Incorrect information on www.netbsd.org
To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/16/1999 14:16:19
On 16 Jun 1999 22:24:44 +0200
Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com> wrote:
> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
>
> Ok, so having just done a search, I see your NetBSD/alpha bug was reported
> in the "kern" category. For the record, Alpha bugs belong in the
> "port-alpha" category.
>
> OK. What belongs to kern then?
Stuff that is MI ... the errors you were getting seem to be pretty
Alpha-specific.
> Machine Check vector 0x660 is often some sort of hardware failure. But
> in order to find out what really happened, we need to decode some
> info that is ... not documented very well.
>
> Three machines fail in the same manner, but run other NetBSD versions and
> other OS'es OK.
>
> If I add some code to do this, and make a new boot floppy, would you
> be willing to test it?
>
> I'll test that if it will help fix the bug. But let's exclude hardware
> failure given that I get the same failure with 3 different machines.
The initial change won't be to fix the bug, but rather to find out
precisely what is happening. Decoding the "logout frame" will dump
out a large amount of information, which you will then need to e-mail
to port-alpha (or append to the bug report).
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>