Dennis den Brok wrote:
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> Hello,
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> ISTR I've seen the same dmesg-oddities on all
> NetBSD-newer-than-1.6-machines I've set up so far; I used to blame my
> stupidity, though. I'm curios what the reason for that is. 

FWIW I've never seen this exact problem.  I have seen macppc machines 
where the beginning of the dmesg was garbage, but there was never 
trailing garbage and it certainly never cut off the dmesg.  I have yet 
to play with BIOS options - this machine is literally brand-new out of 
the box this afternoon.  If I find anything that fixes the problem I'll 
report it.

> Apart from
> that: Shouldn't the two cores provide two logical processor each, thanks
> to HT?

Unfortunately no.  For that you have to shell out the big $$ for the 
Pentium Extreme Edition, which is a Pentium D with hyperthreading on 
each core.  That processor isn't even an option for this machine.  I'm 
perfectly happy with what I have though - it's plenty fast for what I 
need to do (lots of build jobs).  I had three pkgsrc compiles and a svn 
build of gcc going at the same time and they were all very snappy.

-Henry Bent

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dennis den Brok
> 
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> Henry R. Bent schrieb:
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have not yet heard of a booting success on a Pentium D machine.  I
>>just got a Gateway E4500 tower with an 830 today and it works!  I am
>>using -current from today with the GENERIC.MPACPI kernel, no changes.
>>The only thing that doesn't work is the onboard BCM5752 ethernet; I have
>>yet to test if I can get it running using the bge driver so I just threw
>>an old 3C905 in the machine.  Everything else is as-shipped.
>>
>>Here's the weird thing, though: dmesg is full of junk at the beginning
>>and end, both when I say "dmesg" and in /var/run/dmesg.boot.  Just pages
>>and pages of "^?M" over and over, and they cut off the end of my dmesg.
>> Very odd.  Any thoughts?
>>
>>-Henry Bent
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