Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 [NetBSD 1.2] keeps on booting.
To: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Mark Newton <newton@communica.com.au>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/14/1997 15:14:52
Rick Kelly wrote:
> Scott Ellis said:
>
> >My 3/110 gets to the 'everything dumps core' stage after about 2 weeks,
> >but I've never as a spontaneous reboot. Do you have the eeprom setup
> >to automatically boot a kernel, or is NetBSD actively rebooting itself
> >rather than crashing?
>
> My 3/60 has been up for 15 days running NetBSD 1.2B from late November.
> It will probably be up until the next time I sup, build, and reboot,
> unless there is a poweroutage, which caused the last reboot.
Do you have si_options set to 5?
"everything dumps core" seems to happen with depressing regularity when si_options == 7
and not at all when si_options == 5. DMA completion interrupt handler bug?
- mark
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