From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 13 15:39: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AC937B719; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:38:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2DNcjG41742; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:38:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:38:25 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: new breakage in mounting root? a devfs issue? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Mar-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: >> Can you possibly try to narrow the differences down by tring out various >> kernel >> configs in between GPLUS and GENERIC? > > Actually- look at the diffs at least and tell me which you think it might > be. All of the diffs are either kernel support flavors for alpha, which > shouldn't matter to devfs for a damn, or drivers. > > If nobody can get to this, I'll try and look at this further, but this is > looking very very strange. It could be some driver screwing up with makedev() though one would think we'd have hit that before now. It could be something really odd relating to the size of the kernel. It could be the maxuers change resulting in kernel memory being laid out differently. *shrug* I didn't see anything in that diff that would have broken this either. Does it happen w/o devfs? I'm updating my alpha to today's current, so perhaps I'll run into this here. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message