Re: disklabel MAXPARTITIONS reversal

[Paul Koning <paulkoning%comcast.net@localhost>]

On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:50:34PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
>> SIMH VAX?  That doesn't work for current NetBSD -- the "NetBSD" idle
>> setting is for an older release, assuming it ever worked which I don't
>> know.
> 
> AFAICT this has been fixed, so it should be detected (we switch to IPL 1
> on entry to the idle loop):
> 
> /*
> * This allows SIMH to recognize the kernel wants to sleep.
> */
> static inline void
> cpu_idle(void)
> {
>        int ipl = mfpr(PR_IPL);
>        mtpr(1, PR_IPL);
>        mtpr(ipl, PR_IPL);
> }
> 
> 
> And yes, I had idle detection set to "netbsd".
> 
> Martin

Good to know.  My results were from V6.0-RC1 if I remember right.

        paul