With lots of help from Andrew Gallatin and Marcel Moolenaar I think I've located the problem with -current on alpha and I have a very rough patch that gets the cluster's Alpha reference machine to the point it boots and runs. In a nutshell the promcons stuff used to allow debugging info to be printed to the console from a very early point in the boot doesn't work any more. Things like make_dev() require the machine to have progressed to the point that more of the VM system is functional than before (this seems to have begun with the device megapatches). My patch moves the initialization of the promcons stuff until after the VM system is initialzed and comments out all the printf()'s I could find that might have happened before the console is initialized. I DON'T KNOW THIS STUFF WELL ENOUGH TO BE THE ONE COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DEALING WITH THIS. Drew and Marcel can look this stuff over for me but ... Are there any other folks out there who can take a look at this and provide feedback? Thanks... -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith_at_cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |Received on Thu Feb 26 2004 - 19:11:48 UTC
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