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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:31:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de>
To:        Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909190028270.7097-100000@cello.innominate.local>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909181343220.45247-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org>

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On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote:
> 
> Your message at freebsd-hackers:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This looks like the 'timecounter.method' problem,
> with AMD K5 model 0 sugar.
> I have had good result from a single patch,
> not touching the timecounter stuff, but instead:
> 
> If you can find file sys/i386/i386/switch.s
> and there a single operation
> hlt
> 
> try deleting that op, recompile/install kernel and reboot
> and see what happens. I'm curious to hear about the result.
> 
yes it works perfectly - it solved all the problems at once ...

how did you find that solution ? - maybe this should be added as
one of the cpu specific options to LINT - so that the next one will
find that easier ... a lot of thanks

t

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