Thanks for the update! I am wondering if you could briefly comment on boot0cfg. This might be (or might not be?) related to a recent strange error I encountered while installing DFly on a macbookpro: I wiped clean the harddisk and installed DFly + FreeBSD using an MBR partitioning scheme. Each has an MBR partition and since DFly was installed last I hit enter when it asked if I wanted to install bootblocks. The result is strange: DFly's boot manager can boot FreeBSD but not DFly (after the boot prompt, the cursor moves to the next line and that's all, the machine hangs). I can still boot DFly using the install CD (get to boot prompt and tell the correct rootdev and vfs.root.mountfrom etc), but it's clumsy.
So I wonder if it's boot0cfg or something related to boot1_64 and boot2_64 that fails the booting process? I suppose the fact that macbookpro has EFI does not help either. I am not sure how to track this further. Cheers, Peeter -- On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > We will be releasing 3.8.1 on Monday. It will contain: > > * Temporary csprng fixes while we work on adding a second algorithm > * USB mouse stall fix for X > * MXCSR fixes for X and firefox (hopefully they are now fixed). > * Updated openssl (again) > > These changes are in the -release branch already so anyone who wants > a jump-start can just compile up a new world/kernel and be done with it. > > The delay is so we can review a few other things in master that we might > want to cherry-pick and to check for and clean up remaining loose ends. > > I will also use the time to look at boot0cfg and nmalloc cache coloring > but adjustments to those might not get into 3.8.1. boot0cfg... we might > just have to say that it shouldn't be used. It's a pretty bad hack. > nmalloc... we might not have time to test the requested performance > enhancement for the 3.8.1 roll. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[email protected]>
