Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:47:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c mp_machdep.c vm_ma Message-ID: <20010714214700.F29989-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010714172835.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 15-Jul-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > What do you mean? You mean the 'cngect' dance? That'd work too if you'd like. > > No, the ugly rendezvous where we stop all the CPUs and then do a handshake to > transfer control over to the boot CPU which then shuts down the CPU that just > poked it and then performs the final halt so that the SRM console is on the > boot CPU, for example. Alpha may not need this however. The 4100 at work > doesn't hang on shutdowns and seems to work fine regardless of which CPU does > the halt and drop to SRM. My 4100 hung. There was no rendevous in alpha, nor were any processors stopped. They are now, although it could be done with a handshake. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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