From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 15 8:57:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hydrologue.com (adsl-63-194-243-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.194.243.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2B937B416 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bradym@localhost) by mail.hydrologue.com (8.10.1/8.10.0.Beta6) id g0FM0lT28843; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:00:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:00:47 -0800 From: Brady Montz Message-Id: <200201152200.g0FM0lT28843@mail.hydrologue.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA crahes - solved (it seems)! References: <20020113224800.A82744@tisys.org> <3C42F7E1.3040508@magpage.com> Gcc: nnml+archive:misc-mail Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --text follows this line-- Daniel Frazier writes: > Nils Holland wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > this may well be my last report on the system crashes I (and probably also > > > other people) have seen on VIA 686B boards. > > Basically, ever since I did my latest CVSup on Saturday and rubilt world as > > > well as the kernel, even the most demanding tests would not allow me to > > crash my machine. The strange thing is that my previous kernel was exactly > > from one week ago. At that time Soren's 686B fixes were already in place, > > and a message about the fix being applied even showed up in my dmesg.boot. > > So, I don't really know why this week's sources work so well, as there were > > basically no dramatic changes since the week before. But instead of > > wondering about it, I'll be happy that it works instead ;-) > > I'll keep my eyes on this and in case new problem should occur with any of > > > my future (weekly) updates, I will report them. I do, however, think that > > the problem may now be successfully fixed *for good*, and would like to > > thank the people who worked on this. Special thanks to Soren, who created > > the fix, and of course to Matt, who worked hard on debugging my problems, > > when initially it seemed as if something was wrong with the NFS code. > > Thanks folks ;-) > > Greetings > > > Nils Sadly, as of yesterday's version of the source, my crashes still persist. I have the VIA 586 chipset. -- Brady Montz bradym@balestra.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message