On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Forgive me if I'm beating a dead horse... I'm still having the following
> > > problem if I load any modules from /boot/loader.conf:
> >
> > I've reproduced this here, and narrowed it down to Soren's ATA megacommit
> > on the 18th. Unfortunately, the newbus patches (tested) and the other
> > gunk (untested) ended up lumped in together, and I'm not having a lot of
> > luck working out what exactly might be causing this.
>
> That megapatch was only newbus patches and cosmetics around that, one
> new item was cmd646 support but that is hardly the problem here.
>
> > Soren - this is somewhat of a showstopper. Can you reproduce it there?
>
> Nope, I've tried several machines here, no problems, even with tons
> of modules..
>
> The only thing I can come up with is that _something_ makes the
> delayed probe be called _before_ interrupts are up and running.
> That will make it fail like this. Quuestion is is something
> else messing with those hooks ?
> We've seen this before, but back then no solution was found either,
> it dissaperead all by itself...
Nick Hibma's machine at work shows this problem. Its an AMD Athlon FWIW.
Nick spent a couple of hours looking at it without much success. I'll try
some things today to see if the probe is being called with interrupts
disabled.
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