From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 8: 3:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5B337B422; Sun, 27 May 2001 08:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@ppp180-bsace7001.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.80.180]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4RF39F01563; Sun, 27 May 2001 08:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B111787.220345BB@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:04:39 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken loader? References: <20010526145104.C11876@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:54:05PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > At some point after May 3, but probably much more frequently, the alpha boot > > stuff has gotten broken. > > VERY broken. I am trying to back out loader commits to find the > problem.. but thanks to some very poorly tested commits I've wasted 10 > hours trying to get either of a -current PWS or DS20 usable. My guess is that the newly imported FICL 2.05 + the forth stuff we use at boot got too big for the space allocated for the dictionary on the alpha. This happened to me when using my more comprehensive stuff instead of the standard stuff on the i386. Reason why I made commit to remedy this. Other possibilities are: 1) I screwed up merging i386 and alpha sysdep changes. 2) FICL 2.05 has a few bugs. FICL 2.06 is out already fixing these bugs and first time I get I'll merge that. These bugs don't seem to affect i386, but... 3) Maybe there is something eerily wrong with the libstand changes that were made. Very unlikely, though. I wish I could work on locating the problem, but... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message