Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it posible to run FreeBSD/sparc64 on SunFire V215? Message-ID: <20090921155445.W4106@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090921143504.GD73777@alchemy.franken.de> References: <3979a4b0909170200x754ea8c5l495e300b2a7a5113@mail.gmail.com> <20090917224556.GA41908@alchemy.franken.de> <3979a4b0909172329q3a113942xfcd71394a98fee19@mail.gmail.com> <20090918131416.GQ57060@alchemy.franken.de> <20090921150632.U4106@ury.york.ac.uk> <20090921143504.GD73777@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marius Strobl wrote: > The behaviour you describe was present between r177108 > and r182919 (and before r60506), since r182919 the > loader just leaves the network interface instance > opened forever again for sparc64 so this shouldn't be > the reason for what KOT MATPOCKuH is seeing. Of course > leaving the NIC instance opened isn't the right to do > either and in fact likely is part of the problem > which triggeres the panic he is seeing, I don't see > an easy way to properly fix the loader/libstand to > not do the open-close-dance for every access though. Ah, thanks for that update - I hadn't realised one cause of this had been fixed. In that case, when I get a chance, I'll try to analyse why netbooting is so slow on my machines too. Gavin
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