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- From: jackv@orpheus.Corp.Sun.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: sun-4/600 systems and xd/xt device drivers
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 10:55:41 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <1992Jul21.013853.4236@walter.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Jul21.013853.4236@walter.bellcore.com> dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) writes:
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- | I have noticed a sometimes painful bug in the SunOS 4.1.2 kernel for the
- | sun4m architecture machines. If during autoconfiguration a device driver
- | probe routine poke()s a VME address for which no VME widget responds, then
- | the kernel will go belly up when it later tries to start the rest of the
- | processors. I have not attempted to determine why this happens.
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- This problem is fixed with patch 100542-04. Same thing for Sbus probes.
- Go Wild!!
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- Cheers,
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- Jack F. Vogel Sun Microsystems Inc. jackv@Sun.COM
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