on 10/25/01 9:49 PM, Chuck Silvers at chuq@chuq.com wrote:

> hi,
> 
> the only thing I can suggest at the moment is turning on "options NEWPMAP"
> in your kernel config file.  the old powerpc pmap module had lots of bugs,
> one of which you are experiencing now.  so a while back matt thomas
> rewrote it, but unfortunately the new pmap also has bugs, but they're
> different bugs.  so if one of them doesn't work for you, try the other one.
> if you have problems with both of them, you may be out of luck for now.

That's not a very reassuring statement.  Would you care to be a little more
specific about the bugs in the new pmap?

I've had uptimes of many months with a 1.5-branch kernel on macppc.  Did
something happen to the old pmap between then and -current that broke things
this badly?

-- monroe
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Monroe Williams                                  monroe@criticalpath.com